SHOWS
“Derelicts – a 2018 spring exhibit at the Waterfront Museum.
Jim is a New York City based landscape painter who works mostly from his boat doing vistas and intimate close ups often showing remnants of the harbor’s past.
For the past 30 years Jim has painted from a small workboat around the edges of New York Harbor. He was drawn to the derelict; overgrown industrial remains that, until recently, ringed the city. Their silent isolation speaks volumes of the other eras, histories and peoples long gone. The combination of industrial decay and encroaching irrepressable nature is a perfect blend of melancholia and hopefulness.”
David Sharps, President, Waterfront Museum
Jim St. Clair’s ‘Remote N.Y.’ at Gold/Smith Gallery
“Gold/Smith Gallery in Boothbay Harbor is proud to present incredibly gorgeous plein air oil paintings on wood and canvas by Jim St.Clair.
Some parts of a place are iconic, symbols of the essence of place. But there are different points of view, perspectives not normally seen by visitors, or even residents. St. Clair’s subject is the New York waterfront seen from the water and the backwaters of the city. Much of this panorama is disappearing, the remnants of another era of waterfront activity. Industrial, commercial, recreational pushed aside by powerful social and economic forces. This detritus, although not pretty, gives St. Clair’s landscapes a strange gritty beauty that sticks in the memory … something familiar seen from a different angle. His use of heavy paint evokes the grit and grease and also the romance of this disappearing aspect of New York.”
Karen Swartsberg, Owner, Gold/Smith Gallery
"Waterways" at Buddy Warren Gallery, NYC
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