James Bishop

Background

James Bishop was born on October 7, 1927, in Neosho, Missouri, United States.

Education

In 1946 – 1950 James attended Syracuse University in New York. After that he studied at Washington University in 1951 – 1954 in Saint Louis. In 1953 he was at Black Mountain College, and in 1955 – 1956 attended Columbia University in New York.

Career

In 1957 James went to Paris and didn’t return to New York until 1966, ostensibly missing a close-up view of the rise of Pop Art, Color Field painting and Minimalism, the whole caboodle of postwar American painting. Nor did his self-imposed exile in Paris prevent him from traveling to Italy and closely studying the work of artists as diverse as Cosimo Tura and Lorenzo Lotto. He also saw work by artists such as Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly in Paris.

Throughout his career, Bishop has engaged European and American traditions of post-War abstraction while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own. Alternating between painting and drawing, Bishop's works explore the ambiguities and paradoxes of material opacity and transparency, flatness and spatiality, as well as linear tectonics and loosely composed forms. Bishop’s paintings are roughly six feet square, reflecting the proportions of his own body. Currently, he works in Blévy, near Maillebois, in France.

Achievements

• James Bishop was highly famous forhis abstract works "Early", "Closed", and "Maintenant."

Works

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• painting

  • Early

  • State

  • Untitled

  • Maintenant

  • Closed

  • Untitled (Bank)

  • Avant le Jour

  • Untitled

  • Having

  • Other Colors

References

• James Bishop
  2015
• James Bishop: Malerei auf Paper / Paintings on Paper
  2018