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Avenue Bank Corporate Lobby Commission - Avenue bank opened October 10, 2007 with the feature painting by James in downtown Nashville TN (between the Frist Art Museum and historic Union train depot.) Nashville Arts Magazine included the piece in its November 2007 issue. James also has smaller paintings in Avenue branches.
In November, 2007 the Capitol Arts Alliance featured all new figurative work by James in their main gallery located on Fountain Square of downtown Bowling Green KY.
| WNPT Arts Connection (PBS) made a video about the Arts At The Airport, Nashville Int'l show. Watch it! |
James' Art Is Available On Ongoing Basis At:
Swanson Reed
1377 Bardstown Rd,
Louisville KY 40204
(502) 452-2904
Tag Art Gallery
Nashville, TN
Contact: Jerry Dale McFaddon
The Gallery At 916
916 State St.
Bowling Green KY
James' paintings are also held in the permanent corporate collections of two major Nashville institutions.
 The 2005 Blick Studio catalog by art supplier Dick Blick featured artwork by James Pearson on the front and back covers. "Momentum" acrylic on gallery wrap canvas, held in the private collection of S. Scarbrough |
Art interviews / reviews / tv press:
Nashville Arts Magazine Nov. 2007
Nashville Arts Magazine Aug. 2007
Contemporary Art Gallery Magazine Nov. 2006
Boise Weekly March 2006
The Amplifier Mar. 2003
Nashville Scene Nov. 2002
Tennessean Oct. 2002
Ebsq zine, Dec. 2001
Franklin Favorite: 2002
Outsider Art Article: Nashville City Paper
Music review: The Fly Over States Ebsq zine, June 2002
WKYU PBS & KET PBS Programs feature James:
David Brinkley, of Western Kentucky University's WKYU PBS, produced a feature segment "Art & Fire" on James as part of WKYU's original Arts program, MainStreet. The segment contains an interview and scenes of James at work in the studio.
The segment is redistributed statewide as part of KET PBS' Kentucky Life program at various times from 2004 through 2008. KET's statewide network reaches all of Kentucky as well as bordering states and metropolitan areas including Cincinnati, OH and Nashville, TN.
 Blir Magazine #6 (March 2006) featured James Pearson artwork |
Capitol Arts Alliance Featured Show: Houchens Gallery, Bowling Green KY November 2007
Arts At The Airport Flying Solo Exhibition: Nashville International Airport, Nashville TN March 9 - June 4, 2007
Mark Palmer Gallery: Annual Holiday Group Show: Paducah KY Nov. 7th 2006 -Jan. 27th 2007
Tag Art Gallery: Featured Show: Nashville TN Oct. 7th-28th 2006
Kentucky Museum: "Side By Side" VSA Kentucky collaborative works show Bowling Green KY April 17- June 2006
Visual Arts Collective: Solo show, March 3 - April 22nd, 2006 Boise ID
Blir Magazine 6th edition featured artist Jan-Feb 2006
Kentucky Arts Council grant recipient 2006
Blick Studio Artists Catalog 2005 cover art.
Shaker Museum: Shake, Ride & Roll featured art, 2005
Capitol Arts Alliance: Solo show: Mezzanine Gallery, Bowling Green KY, March 25 - April 29, 2005
Tag Art Gallery Featured Show; Nashville TN, October 28th 2004
Youth Encouragement Services Charity for Inner City Youth; The Factory, Franklin TN, June 20, 2003
The historic Guider House Featured show; Nashville TN, May 2003 as represented by TAG Art Gallery
The Drunken Fish Featured show; Nashville TN, Feb. - May 2003
Bongo Java East Small Works Show participant; Nashville TN, December 2002
Tag Art Gallery Featured Show; Nashville TN, November 2002 with Roger Clayton
4th Annual House Of Blues Folk Art Show: Orlando, FL November 2002 as represented by TAG Art Gallery
Worlds Greatest Studio Tour: Bowling Green, KY November 9 &10, 2002 Lot 916 Gallery
Gallery On The Square: Featured Show: Council, September/October 2002; Children's workshop; Franklin, KY July, 2002; Taught art classes 2001-2003
Capitol Arts Day: Bowling Green, KY August 3, 2002
Nashville Art & Soul: Nashville, TN July 19, 2002
Memphis Marsha's Gallery: Taught Animation, Comics, Storyboards and Cartooning class; Bowling Green KY July 2002
Indigenous Kentucky: Gallery show; Lot 916; Bowling Green KY May3-June 7, 2002
Green Tie Affair: Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville TN; Spring 2002
VSAK: Very Special Arts KY; teacher; Summer 2001; Spring 2006
Simply Red: Invitational Small Works Exhibition; Bowling Green KY Feb 2 - March 16, 2001
Private solo show: Cincinnati OH; private sponsor along with Ehoodin & Williams Gallery; December 15, 2001
World's Greatest Studio Tour: Bowling Green KY; November 10-11, 2001
20th Annual All KY Juried Fine Art Exhibition Capitol Arts Alliance; Bowling Green KY; November 10 - December 29, 2000
New Works Show: Solo show; Capitol Arts Alliance; Bowling Green
KY August 4 - September 6, 2000
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 22nd Decorators Show House Participant presented by the Jr. League of Nashville Dec. 2nd - 17th, 2006 |
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Affiliations: Arts Kentucky Ebsq+: juried division of ebsq. |
 Online Tour of James' Studio |
Experiences
& Influences
"I've
studied art and music for 20 years. In both, I value honesty and
ingenuity. Art is my career and our family's livelihood. I've sold
paintings all over the USA and in France, Canada, China, Belgium and
the Netherlands. I have paintings in regional galleries and have had
solo exhibits in Ohio, Tennessee and my home state of
Kentucky.
I am a member of the EBSQ, the original online self-representing artists group, and a juried member of EBSQ+. Please visit their site for more information about EBSQ. I am also a member and supporter of Arts Kentucky. The Electronic Museum of Modern Ar t is a select group catering to collectors who are seeking innovative, powerful, contemporary work from independent artists. I am a juried member of this online community.
I teach Art Fundamentals, Beginning Guitar classes and Music Theory/Composition for all ages at local art galleries.
I'm a multi-instrumentalist who composes, arranges and records in my humble home studio. I also engineer and produce other musicians and songwriters.
"In
all things, I aim to simplify expression to something that is pure.
Quite often, my paintings are influenced by childrens art and
indigenous art from around the world: particularly aboriginal
Australian creation paintings, Japanese woodcuts, Peruvian weavings and
Tibetan sand paintings. Western painters I admire include Henri
Matisse, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Mark Rothko and Alexander Calder. My
earliest influences were comic books. Like Klee and many other artists,
music greatly influences my work as a painter."
The
Artist's Magazine (April 2004 & Jan. 2005) featured
James in this full page ad for Blick Studio:
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