Artists Catalogue: Marty St James - Somewhere or in Between
Recent video works, digital prints and drawings
New York
24 pages
Published by The Project Room @ Chelsea Art Museum
ISBN 0-9764504-1-0
New artists video to be premiered in Buenos Aires 2006
'HOMAGE' by British artist, MARTY ST. JAMES is a self-portrait with his signature fedora hat that is an homage to a comradery with family, friends and fellow artists who wear them. The chanting of Buddhist monks propel St. James' dreamlike journey to locate and inhabit an inner sense of self and being in spaces existing between meaning and meaninglessness, the moving and static.
Nina Colosi NY 2006
First 'Live' Performance Art work by St.James for 12 years.
St.James performs at the 'All Ears' contemporary music festival part of the forum composers group 'Homage' a sound/video/live artwork. September 2006 The Warehouse London
Thinking Action Drawing 2006
Marty St. James "The Invisible Man"
Premiere of video triptych filmed in France, 2007
7-minute performance/discussion
June 16 @ 4:00PM
“The Invisible Man” on view June 16-July 7
Bringing together Constable, Wells, Magritte, Beuys 'under one hat'.
Marty St. James is a London based visual and performance artist
2nd floor gallery during museum hours
FREE with museum admission
Information: Nina Colosi, curator, 646-425-0981
“…Marty St. James believes that art only matters if the artist has something important to say, that his or her work is not simply an item of commercial transaction. His is an Apollonian discourse rather than a Dionysian one. For him art is a way of thinking in the visual rather than the making of a heroic statement or precious object. He is in tune with Bachelard's notion that the embodiment of knowledge exists in the action of making, rather than in the object of the finished piece. His intention is to investigate "the stringing together of moments in frame type form to explore surface and time." Sue Hubbard Arts Editor The Independent Newspaper, London
“THE INVISIBLE MAN”
Marty St. James
Like a sporting event Time becomes duration, it concerns the Space that is defended and then occupied, many moments are then Conserved but finally they become Obselete and faded pictures in the minds of many. Thus Invisible Man can be seen as occupying all these elements at once. The 19th century writer H.G.Wells gave form to his invisible creature by wrapping his head in bandages, a hat and dark glasses. The key to the experiment was water / liquids and our supposed ´ability´to see through them. Here the invisibility also has a social, political and creative activity at the heart of its thinking. But Time Based Media methods are sort here, in particular actions and movements to provide other forms, which ideally disappear or like rain transform into something else often made up of O´s and 1´s.
As with Well´s book, doubt creeps into the mind and produces another solution or indeed an obvious answer. Like mummification our test and dilemma is, can we preserve the now or is process the only real solution the digital age.
Marty St.James, Buenos Aires May, 2007