JAMES MACDONELL: RETROSPECTIVE 2004-2024
“James Macdonell is an artist who has an uncanny gift to “put it all together” in sculpture, in photography, in things we might name later. That “all” includes traces of apparitions and moments that he has found the generosity to reveal for us.” – Mel Chin is a Conceptual artist and recipient of multiple awards from many organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, Art Matters, Creative Capital, Pollock/Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Rockefeller and the Nancy Graves Foundation Award.
“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 is a Visual Artist. 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.
“James Macdonell continues to mine the worlds of sight and sound in acts of open-ended creativity. His visual compositions combine the conceptual and the tactile to create objects and environments that always engage and delight.” – David Houston curator and art historian, is the Executive Director of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, the former Director of Curatorial at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Bo Bartlett Center, College for the Arts and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
“One of the most prolific artists I know” – Richard ‘Dickie’ Landry photographer, musician, composer, artist. Landry has performed at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, The Kitchen, Metropolitan Opera House, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Leo Castelli Gallery, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery, Washington, DC as well as the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City.
“James Macdonell is an artist of many disciplines. Timeless and important work.” – Robert Tannen is an artist, urban planner and one of the founders of the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans.
