James Allen is an excavator. He transforms used books into sculptural reliefs by selectively cutting through pages, keeping fragments of images and words to create a composition using the content of the book. His work is in several public collections, including the Fine Art Library and Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA and Johns Hopkins University’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
In James’s Artist Talk, he discusses “Untitled (Hotel de la Clef D’Or)” by Joseph Cornell, and how it relates to his work.
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https://www.jamesallenstudio.com/
This Artist Talk was recorded on July 19, 2018 in Portland Art Museum’s Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in the Jungers Gallery.
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