
Progression, 2008, Albright Knox gallery
The paintings of James Howell abound in paradox. His present work, limited strictly to closely controlled gradients of the color gray, is nonetheless lively and luminous. Created by a process of mathematical precision and executed meticulously within carefully defined limits, the work fosters a sense of expansiveness. |
| b. Kansas City, MO 1935. Lives and works in New York, NY
Education Nelson Art Institute, Kansas City, MOB.A. Literature 1957 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California B. ARCH. (5-year Art and Architecture) 1960 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California University of Washington, Seattle, WA Art Student's League, Woodstock, NY Awards 1970 Westchester Museum Annual, New York, Juror: Dore Ashton1960 Humanities Prize for the Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1953 Art Prize, The Hill School, Pottstown, PA SELECTED Solo Exhibitions 2011, 2004, 2000 catalogue, 1995 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM documentary catalogue2010 von Bartha Chesa, S-Chanf, Switzerland documentary catalogue 2008 catalogue, 2004 catalogue, BARTHA Contemporary Art, London, England 2006, 2003 Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney/Cologne, Sydney, Australia 2005, 2000 Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland 1998 STIL-American Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany 1995 Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA catalogue; Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM catalogue 1993 University of Washington, Seattle, WA Henry Art Gallery "New Works" series SELECTED Group Exhibitions 2010 – 2005 BARTHA Contemporary, London, UK2009 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Estaban Vicente Segovia, Spain, catalogue 2009 – 2005 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 2008 catalogue, 2007, 2005 catalogue, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2007 Werner Klein Gallery, Cologne, Germany catalogue 2005 Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany catalogue 2003 – 1999 W. H. Kramarsky, New York, NY 2002 Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY 2001 – 1994 Charlotte Jackson Fine Atrt, Santa Fe, NM 1999 Landesgalerie Oberösterreich Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, catalogue 1992 Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED Public and Private Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NYDavis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Ira and Miriam D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany Dr. and Mrs. Irving Forman, Santa Fe, NM Museo de arte Contemporáneo Estában Vicente, Segovia, Spain Comet AG, Flamatt, Switzerland Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY von Bartha Collections, Basel, Switzerland |