James Nye
Diploma of Fine Arts, 2002,
James Nye is a contradictive tourist, subculture pop anthropologist; with camera in hand he documents the arguably primal markings of graffitied streets and alleyways. Documentations, fragments, and memory are translated into his paintings. Unlike the classic idealization of the landscape genre, James Nye paints landscape from the landscape perspective through the eyes of graffitied walls. The viewer is trapped behind a wall with the vandalizations of markings upon them. We view the less ideal landscape as the landscape. Are we not the product of our environment?
Granville Split
in x in
oil on canvas
Playground
16 in x 24 in
Skillful Complex
16 in x 24 in
oil on canvas
The Face of St. Laurent
16 in x 24 in
oil on canvas
The Tower of Letters
16 in x 24 in
oil on canvas
Under an Emblem
40 in x 60 in
oil on canvas
