James Edward Scherbarth
. . . a Minnesota independent study artist working in oil+wax painting, kumihimo art jewelry, digital photography and digital montage with themes about layers, time & patinas, color, emotions & memories, symbols & stories. Each piece of his visual art and his jewelry is uniquely accomplished through layers of color, line and texture.
My work is about patinas acquired over time, the evidentiary marks of experience and life’s accumulation of layers.
Layers built over time and into timelessness: layers of color, shades of memories, and reflections of nature.
Each image - painting, digital montage or piece of art jewelry - is an emotional statement, a memory recalled, or a fleeting glimpse of nature’s diverse beauty.
Through an intuitive process of constructing & deconstructing, of collecting, blending, erasing, blurring, marking and clarifying
I discover the image, the story within, the emotion and history behind it. Each piece is a conversation, creating a new language of markings and gestures.
Simultaneously cathartic and enlightening it is a conversation & a journey of a lifetime.
With your contemplation of my work you join me on this journey and enter into the conversation – welcome!
2012 (March) Unity Church-Unitarian 732 Holly Ave, St Paul, MN
2011 (Fall) Bloomington Theatre & Art Center 35th Members Juried Show Bloomington, MN
Juror: Lyndel King, Dir & Chief Curator Frederick R Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota
2011 September 30 & October 1 Scott County Art Crawl
2011 September 15 Canvas & Vines, BPAC - Burnsville, MN Group Show Fundraiser
2011 August BVAS Group Show @ Thrivent Financial Box Gallery - Minneapolis, MN
2011 (July 13 - August 11) The Great Frame Up - Timeless Layers (selected works) Burnsville, MN Solo Show
2011 (May - July) Sikora Salon Solo Show – selected works Minneapolis, MN SIngle Artist Show
2011 (May) Art4Shelter, Simpson Housing Services/CIRCA Gallery Minneapolis, MN Group Show Fundraiser
2011 (Spring) Burnsville Visual Arts Society ART FETE Burnsville Performing Arts Center Group Show
2010 (Fall) Theater in the Round Fall Minneapolis, MN Single-Artist Show
2010 (Fall) Bloomington Theatre & Art Center 34th Juried Members Show Bloomington, MN
Juror: Christopher James Atkins, MAEP Coordinator, Minneapolis Institute of Art