new and recent work from Michael James

“At the height of the pandemic, our personal worlds closed in on themselves in a host of ways. I’d retired from my “day job” only a handful of months earlier, and that retreat, combined with the larger social one forced on us by Covid-19, led me to focus on what was closest at hand. In my basement studio I felt doubly isolated. From its high windows I can catch narrow glimpses of a neighbor’s house, of a bit of sky backlighting the pergola that sits on our outdoor terrace a level up from where one of my worktables is positioned. I hear almost nothing from the outside, though, and feel cocooned and remote and protected…”

Michael James

Past Forward is a collection of twenty-five new and recent works and will be on view in November until the 26th, Thursdays through Saturdays, noon to five pm.

Opening receptions Thursday and Friday, the 3rd and 4th, beginning at 5 pm.