James Macdonell
“There is great resiliency in the human spirit. It can withstand unspeakable hardships and rise above catastrophes. In literature the hero can only prevail in the third act, after overcoming the conflicts and obstacles allied against him. Often these forces destroy lesser men. We all must journey through dark nights, through loss, through abandonment, through doubt and betrayal. Only by passing through all of them do we emerge into light.“
“A MID-CAREER SHIFT IMPACTED THE NATURE OF JAMES MACDONELL’S MATERIAL OUTPUT. HIS ACUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME ITSELF, COMBINED WITH DISCIPLINED DEVOTION TO THE CREATIVE JOURNEY, GAVE SHAPE TO A NEAR-EXTINCT WORLD WHERE ART AND LIFE ARE A HARMONIC UNION, A LAND WHERE DISCARDED FOUND OBJECTS BECOME TRANSFORMED TREASURE.”
-Dawn DeDeaux
Dawn DeDeaux is a Visual Artist and her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, Hammer Museum, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art and Ballroom Marfa.
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Biography
James Macdonell (b. 1958, Lafayette, LA) graduated from Amherst College in January 1980 with a degree in English. As part of the Five College program, he studied photography under Jerome Liebling, Elaine May, and Bill Arnold at Hampshire College, and printmaking under Barry Sease at Mount Holyoke. In 1976, James began working summer jobs on the island of Captiva, FL for noted artist Robert Rauschenberg. For James, this was the beginning of a transformative period that reshaped his perceptions, worldview, and aesthetic vision…
