James Jaxxa
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James Jaxxa is an American artist who lives and works in New York City, New York. Jaxxa's work includes painting, sculpture, site specific installation, appropriation and collage.
Jaxxa attended School of Visual Arts and Rhode Island School of Design, and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Michigan State University. With exhibition names such as "Winter Part Chandelier," "Do You Think I'm Disco," "Outer Space Exploration," "G-Star Denim Work Over" and "How Much Is Enough?," Jaxxa infuses pop art and iconography with pictography and modern symbolism.
His work has been featured in Library of Congress, New York Times, NY Arts Magazine, Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, Viagio and Washington D.C. Art News.
Jaxxa has worked with curators, including Edwin Ramoran. In the exhibit, "Do You Think I'm Disco?," Jaxxa was included along with many other artists including Ray Felix, Derek Jackson, and Christian Marclay. The exhibit, "Critics" dealt with how artists perceive critics and the intrinsic dynamic roles they sometimes play. Curator Greg Lundgren included Jaxxa among other artists.
Jaxxa is a also member of the Young Collectors Council at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Board of trustees.
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- Jaxxa overlaps fluid drawing, bold colors, and random shapes; the canvases are easy on the eyes, and meaning is tantalizingly out of reach. -Emily Hall
- My attraction to the textures, colors and objects in my work is rooted in the idealized curiosity, whimsy and mischief of childhood. I bridge the disparity between the playful abandon of youth and the seriousness of the adult world. -James Jaxxa
- A lot of my pieces look at how American society measures concepts such as value. To explore the contradictions of that, you don't need "valuable" things; the questioning can begin with an act of sheer accumulation - as with many of my temporary site specific installations. -James Jaxxa
