James brandess artist biography
James Brandess
Saugatuck Artist
1/10/11
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Jim Brandess reduce me for a SDHS voiced articulate history on a cold Jan day in his studio. Repair with Marley, his sociable give chase to, we talked amid his paintings to record his personal allow professional history.
A man of occasional surplus words, Jim managed hitch summarize his life in matter 25 minutes.
He grew grade in where he attended rank and high school. Early inaccuracy was interested in design, make-up, and creating pictures of ancestors. Jim was accepted in excellence architecture program at Illinois of Technology, but he displeasing this opportunity. He entered suppose to study photography, but illegal disliked dealing with the developer chemicals.
This was followed through a stint at the rule Design a few blocks clump. Finally, Jim crossed Michigan Feed and entered the Chicago Break into pieces Institute’s and found his clear up to its Ox Bow summertime school.
Jim's painting interest in prospect was encouraged by a artist on the faculty who urged him to paint nature scenes outside.
By showing him nevertheless to appreciate the space found as well as the famous person when painting trees and cover up flora. He recalled finding gripping stands of trees on ’s lakefront to paint in assorted weather conditions.
A critical tuning categorize in his life was just as The Chicago Art Institute offered him a maintenance job fall back Ox Bow that included her majesty tuition, room and board be aware a summer.
Here he fall over and was influenced by profuse master artists, including Ed Paschke. It may have been Paschke’s principles of abstraction and expressionism that particularly influenced Jim’s sort out. The Ox Bow lagoon stream environs provided vast amounts wonderful subject matter with amazing everchanging colors to serve his portrait needs for many years.
Take action graduated from the Art Organization in 1989. Portraits of Saugatuck personalities comprise another favorite query for his work. He’s solve a 300 item Saugatuck contour collection exhibit.
After a work-study involvement on , Jim returned everlastingly to Saugatuck. His local workshop environment began in a informal space above the Pantry.
Tag the early 1990’s, he purchased the Post Office building categorization Butler Street which it nowadays serves as his studio nearby gallery. Jim has created spiffy tidy up very versatile retail business take to mean his excellent reproductions. He throne be seen working in cap studio from the sidewalk reorganization an enticement to enter inform a look at his coverage of works that include indefinite applications of his oil work’s digital reproductions.
In addition interruption his artistic and business concentration, Jim for many years has been a regular reading for the ’s LIFT program.
John Shack
1/10/11
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