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Friday, April 19, 2024
Contributed by Kim Uchiyama / James Nelson’s immersive drawings in “Glass Breaks,” his current solo show at McKenzie Fine Art, elude formalist analysis. Myriad marks and clusters suggest natural ephemera – microbial cultures, spider webs, and bird nests. But their appearance doesn’t explain them. Without words, they communicate something intangible […]
In the Philadelphia Inquirer Edith Newhall reports that the faint, lacy pencil-rendered patterns in James Nelson’s drawings of a few years ago have given way to bolder, darker, charcoal ones. “Nelson’s recent drawings from his series ‘Head of a Girl (in play),’ at Gallery Joe, also introduce obvious humor to […]
