Welcome to the website of James L. Weaver
I'm a retired, former college Art Instructor/artist/musician/writer/filmmaker, who continues to produce, exhibit and publish work in a variety of media. I live in Freedom, CA, a short drive from the beach, and while it doesn't look exactly like this paper collage,, it is a great place to take long walks and examine the changing visuals, while occasionally harvesting "found art", left behind by the last high tide, which occasionally includes spacecraft debris...not really.
"One day, while Mrs. Weaver's little boy Jimmy was playing under the street..."
(A factual account of my first artistic inspiration/epiphany.)<awordwithyoupress.com>
"How to spot a tourist in a cappuccino bakery."
(How Venice Italy's well-heeled start their day.)<imitationfruit.com>
reprinted: <awordwithyoupress.com>
"The Chelsea Hotel."
(A week stay in Artdom's most "in" inn.)<imitationfruit.com>
reprinted: <modernmask.org>
"Friends don't let friends drink...absinthe."
(A regretable gift for the friends back in California.)<imitationfruit.com>
"Celebrating vision, and questioning mediocrity."
(My personal rage against CNN as Art Critics.)<newyorkherald.com>
"On the greening of America."
(Sarcastic evaluation of America's newest non-religious addiction.)<newyorkherald.com>
New Definition For Art"
(My prediction about future of Art.)<artsjournal.com>
My old blogsite: <gimmesomeart.blogspot.com>
In my spare time, I tinker on guitar home-studio recordings, using this iMac and GarageBand/Logic software, which I refer to as my Mirage Band, since you can hear, but not actually see them.(?) The software provides me with a variety of studio instruments, which I incorporate as background rhythm tracks for my Stratocaster lead. Here are a few MP3 (compressed/"flattened"), copies of my arrangements of various Blues,Rock,Pop,Gospel and C/W songs:
Art Portfolio/Statement:
.While the following samples are but a small portion of my portfolio, they will give you an idea as to the various subject
matter I choose to address through various media. Those artists who've had the most impact on my work:
Leonardo Da Vinci-Kurt Schwitters-Jackson Pollock-Jasper Johns-Joseph Cornell-Vassily Kandinsky-Michael Bloomfield "Juke Boy" Bonner--Harvey Mandel-Salvador Dali-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Bob Dylan. My artist statement remains the same as quoted in the MFA catalog: My work is influenced by anyone and anything I come into contact with.
2008
From "The Coat Hanger Series" 19" x 46" Mixed Media 2007
$200.00 each.
"Dogs That Go On The Paper" (Series.) Mixed Media on Arches 29" x 41" 2006
$250 each.
8 of 21 Mixed Media works that make up "The Billboard Series." each work (8" x 10") More of these works can be seen at <vrvgallery.com> under James Weaver. Also: <paintragmagazine.com> ($250.00 each (framed as shown.)
James L. Weaver(American-1942)
(American-1942)2030 Pajaro Ln. #3209Freedom, CA 95019jameslweaver@charter.net http: www.jameslweaver.biz
EDUCATION:1979 Master of Fine ArtsSan Francisco Art Institute (Painting.)1977 Bachelor of Fine ArtsSan Francisco Art Institute (Painting.)1970-1972 College of the Sequoias - Visalia, CA (Filmmaking - Ralph J. Homan)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:2008Art For AllThe DeYoung MuseumSan Francisco2008Teeny TinyThe Micro MuseumBrooklyn, NY2007Members ShowPacifica Art LeaguePacifica, CA2004Faculty ExhibitionTruckee Meadows Coll.Reno, NV2003International ExhibitionHerbst PavilionSan Francisco 2001Primavera (1st. Place-Mixed Media) Las Vegas Museum of Art20009th. BiennaleTaipei Art MuseumTaipei, Taiwan1998 Mainly AbstractLong Beach Art Ctr.Long Beach, CA1984Faculty ExhibitionCollege of MarinKentfield, CA1984 SculptureOlive Hyde GalleryFremont, CA19833-Person Exhib.Smith-Andersen GalleryPalo Alto, CA1981 Artist Book Exhib.Zone GallerySpringfield, MA1980 Nat. Print Exhib.Georgia State UniversityAtlanta, GA1979Paper PiecesCenter for Contemp. ArtLos Angeles, CA1978 Nat. Invitational PaintingNY State U.New Paltz, NY1976 Nat. Drawing Exhib.Cheney Cowles Mus.Spokane, WASOLO EXHIBITIONS:2003Campus GalleryTruckee Meadows Coll.Reno, NV2002Campus GalleryWestern Nevada Coll.Carson City, NV2000Introductions 2000Ebert GallerySan Francisco, CA1984James L. WeaverUniversity of NevadaLas Vegas, NV1976AbstracomicsStudent Lounge- Penn State Univ.WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:Union BankSan Francisco, CARebecca RogersLas Vegas, NV Vaughn WalkerSan Francisco, CABetty BloomburgSan Francisco, CADeutsche BankSan Francisco, CASharon Hale Bradford Sausalito, CALarry & Ingrid Evans Reno, NVARTWORK REPRODUCED:2010 Monterey Talent Magazine Cover photo and feature article inside. July issue.
1981-83 San Francisco Art Inst.School Catalog cover & poster "Rocket Man" (48" x 180") All images and content © 2010-2012 James L. Weaver
2011 Photo.
.Partial list of my exhibition resume:
Sky photo:NASA.com/gallery.
The above three Mixed Media works on Arches paper, are from a series of paintings that address the alphabet as subject matter. (22" x 30"). $250/each.
jameslweaver@charter.net
Myself as a "street monkey" in UCSC student film.
I went down to the crossroads,
just to pay a debt I owed.
Went down to those crossroads,
just to pay a debt I owed,
Devil taught me to play this gi-tar,
I taught him how to drive my stick-shift F'od!
-JLW-
Myself as "judge" in "World's Astonishing News", a Japanese TV series filmed in Bay Area. During 11 episodes, I played an "extra" as: Judge/Doctor/Instructor/Priest/Juror/Studio PR man and hospital patient.
Since 2008, I've had some of my writing published on various websites:
Cover, (lid), of Artist Book.
Inside "pages" of Artist Book.
Math & Science performing Last Rites on the Earth,
during their accidentally-created Vortex.
Mixed media on canvas 86" x108" (1998)
$4,000.00
Solving for "X"
Mixed Media on canvas 96" x 144" (1996)
Three works from The Billboard Series.
"Unspeakable Art!" 25" x 37" Stencils on handmade paper.
$250 each.
"Free Verse" #1 29" x 41" Mixed media on Arches. "Free Verse" #2 29" x 41" M.M on Arches
"Free Verse #3 29" x 41" M.M on Arches. $250 each.
"Straitjacket Poetry" 22" x30" Prismacolor pencil on Arches. $150 each.
Myself as a hard drive...
As someone who has lived in Northern California much of my adult life, and a longtime admirer of the Emeryville Mud Flats sculptures, I produced a series of five 8' x 10' canvases: Low Tide at Emeryville series, a 2001 salute to those who created the sculptures. Like all my large paintings, I first make a small paper collage of the intended painting, using my ongoing collection of colored paper scraps, on 1" grid paper, which serves as a 1:10 ratio "blueprint", for the finished canvas:
The jpg below, shows one such in-progress canvas on my studio wall (2001)
The following works are the Road Map series: Mixed Media (26" x 34")
Three O'Clock Jump (Salute to Leonardo Da Vinci 96" x 96" (In-progress shot in studio.)
Big Bang Theory M.M. on Canvas (84" x 96")
I also have larger (29" x 41" versions of this series. $250 each.
None of the actual canvases are available, but the original paper collages (8" x 10") are for sale- $100 each.
10/4/11: Just finished making second iMovie, "International Space Station Facelift", and hope to submit it to upcoming 2012 film festivals.
11/14/11: Just finished making a short, (01:28) iMovie: "The Peaceable Kingdom...revisited."
May be seen on YouTube.com. The Peaceable Kingdom -mobile.m4v
While I do some writing, (see list of published articles at bottom of website), I prefer to make "books" whose pages take on a box format, which allows me to include DVDs and CDs of my studio recordings and DVD projects. Below, is one such example:
Art Portfolio:
Many years ago,I took some filmmaking classes at College of Sequoias in Visalia. Due to the current economic lull in Art biz, and looking for "something to do", I have begun making desktop iMovie DVDs, using my digital, point-n-shoot camera and Garageband/Logic Pro software:
4/15/12: Current project- I am presently producing a Sci-Fi iMovie about a group of intergalactic explorers who investigate and document space anomalies and unusual discoveries throughout the cosmos. Their current mission has
them investigating a small planetoid located half way between Earth and Mars. The storyline is a continuation of my earlier made movie: International Space Station Facelift. I anticipate having the iMovie completed by summer...(?)
For the past dozen years, anytime we visit a major city, I first create several tiny, mixed media works. These are made from seashore debris, plus my own Schwitters-inspired "merz" objects. I glue each finished piece inside small, (1"x1"x1") clear,
plastic boxes, and attach a piece of 1" double-stick tape on the back of each box. My name and address is included.
Next month, I'll be in London and Berlin for a few days. While I'm in each city, I will be placing "boxes" at specific
locations, and documenting (photograph) each box's location. These serve as my "calling card". To date, no one has
contacted me, saying they found one, so they're either still there, or the weather has removed them...(?)
I'm spending today making 10 "boxes" for the upcoming trip.
Over the years, I've attached between 25-30 of these boxes in various locations that include:
• Inside the back wheel well of Salvador Dali's black Lincoln parked in the Dali Museum. Figueres, Spain
• The window sill of the basement window, (street level.) of Rembrandt's place of birth. Amsterdam, Netherlands
• The outside fence on the Brooklyn Bridge, (Under the WARNING, sign.)
• Under the Books For Sale table on the second floor of MOMA. NYC
• Behind the center bench at the Alice In Wonderland sculpture. Central Park- NYC
• Atop the roof of Antoni Gaudi's "Apartment". Barcelona, Spain
• Atop the swinging door of the Flatiron bldg. 949 Broadway. NYC
• Atop the staircase, (between the right column) of the Tate (Old Tate.) London, G.B.
• Under the table inside the world famous Papaya Hot Dog joint. 42nd. St. NYC
• Under the round table inside the "Insect Suite" Chelsea Hotel W.23rd. St. NYC
• Inside potted plant by exit -Peggy Guggenheim Museum -Venice, Italy
• Under the Information Window counter- Grand Central Station - NYC
• Under the desk of the far right computer inside the computer room - SFMOMA
• Atop the over-the-sink cupboard in cabin # 2120 - Norwegian Crusie Ship "Gem"
• Under the first bench at entrance- Whitney Museum -NYC
Current Art Project:
Next week's ongoing Art project...
Proposal for life-size stained glass window:
Muddy Waters (1913 - 1983)
Mixed media on assorted paper 17" x 11"
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MAY 8, 2012
Published articles since 2008:
