James Terrell
James Terrell
Face 2 Face
Acrylic paint
My art can visually attract individuals notwithstanding the age, race, color, ethnic, religious or creed of the viewer. The paintings represent shared life experiences. At times all humans contemplate life, love, religion, decisions made and decisions yet to be made.
My paintings investigate and resemble the physical and spiritual experience and our very existence. As people we all sit and wonder what is, what was, what is to come and what will be. The experiences, although individual to one’s own heart, are experiences that bind us and bring us together like the fingers of an open or closed hand. Like the lines placed on the canvas, we are intricately woven together by the strands of the human experience.
My art mirrors a physical and spiritual reality. The art is a reflection of joy, pain and confusion, contemplation and deliverance. The paintings seek to regenerate, provoke and inspire the conscious and unconscious thoughts that surround and influence the soul. The gently placed and layered lines in the art are reminiscent of electric wires carrying the currant of spiritual mobility and vitality.
Through contemplation we as individuals and as people can surmount personal and social limitations. Life is a complex. Trying to keep the mind, body and soul together on one accord is a challenge that we all must face.
My art seeks to take the viewer on a visual ride through the silent places between thought thereby allowing revelation and transformation of the human consciousness to occur.