My recent works are operatic three-dimensional paintings where nostalgia, remorse, repression, stamina, chance, and vitality intermingle with paint, thickening mediums, solvents, adhesives, wood, foam, cement, scrap metal, plastic, repurposed animal fur, clothing, and occasionally architectural remnants, and farm equipment.
Discarded fragments carry a history and I embed that history, the life of the object, into my pieces. My work gives agency to cast off remnants, bits, chunks, and paint. Unexpected mergers and combinations are coerced into a dynamic visual dialogue. Some of my pieces are in conversation with Sienese and early Renaissance paintings by Giotto, Sassetta, and Fra Angelico. Some confront more contemporary works.
About the Artist
Originally from Long Island, NY, Jim Condron lives and works in Baltimore, MD and Brooklyn, NY. Condron earned his MFA at the Leroy E. Hofffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in Art and English from Colby College, Waterville, ME. He also studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. His work appears nationally and internationally in galleries and museums as well as in corporate, university, public, and private collections including: The Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Andros, Greece; The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland; Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan; and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Condron is a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant and a Maryland State Arts Council grant. He has been awarded artist residencies at Art Cake Studio Program, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Heliker Lahotan Foundation, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.Jim Condron website artist website Jim Condron website wikipedia Jim Condron website Artsy
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