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Many of Graham’s paintings are naturalist in subject, expanding upon the traditions of both landscape and narrative genre painting. His work often features synthetic reproductions of organic material – a nod to the commercial interests of tourist economies. A long-time resident and environmental advocate of two coastal communities, Graham’s work has been heavily influenced by the low-lying areas along the Eastern seaboard and the Gulf Coast region of the United States. For these communities, the cultivation and erosion of public perception remains as important to livelihoods as the physical adaption to the changing land. His work borrows a “high water mark” aesthetic, depicting entangled combinations of organic sediment and smaller refined objects that remain when the water recedes. Extending this vision towards his own studio practice, Graham’s paintings devalue the importance of a singular subject and focuses on creating new combinations within a rich visual society.

Graham is a research fellow at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, Rabun Gap, Georgia (2018) and was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee (2016). Select solo exhibitions include the Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans (2016), the Sella-Granata Art Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2017), and the Greenleaf Art Gallery, Whittier College, Los Angeles (2018). Articles relating to these exhibitions have been published in the Winter 2017 New Orleans Review, reviewed by Judith Bonner and featured in Art + Design Magazine, Environmental Issue | Summer of 2017. Graham is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona and is represented by the Saladino Gallery in Covington, LA.

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Recent Work

Coastal Lot #1

Artist: James Graham

oil on canvas 93″x78″ 2019

Coastal Lot #1 (detail)

Artist: James Graham

oil on canvas 93

Coastal Lot with Plastic Finger Puppet

Artist: James Graham

oil on canvas 33″x33″ 2018

Floral Arrangement with Twisty Ties

Artist: James Graham

oil on canvas 20″x20″ 2018

Porcelain Dog with Roasted peanuts

Artist: James Graham

oil on canvas 20″x20″ 2018

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University of Arizona School of Art

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Mark your calendars, photographers! There will be a southwestern region alumni reception at the Society for Photographic Education in Houston. Please join us! ... See MoreSee Less

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University of Arizona School of Art

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Mark is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. As winner of the 2019 Portfolio Prize, a portfolio of McKnight’s work was published by Aperture magazine, and was exhibited at the Aperture Gallery in New York. Images shown above form part of his most recent exhibition in New York. Follow Mark @markwmcknight to learn more about his work on our instagram account @uarizonaschoolofart ! ... See MoreSee Less

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University of Arizona School of Art

4 days ago

2019-2020 V.A.S.E. Series, Continues tonight.
February 19, 2020, 5:30pm | Center for Creative Photography, Rm 108
Stephanie Syjuco
Practicing in Public: Artistic Agency Within Global Collaborative Contexts
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How do the ways in which we categorize books and information reflect invisible power structures and hidden hierarchies? What would an intervention into this system look like, and how can artistic processes re- shape, re-organize, and re-evaluate it? “Added Value” was a 1500-square-foot installation functioning as a radical reorganization of knowledge using “low value” used books, for sale to the general public. Conceived and organized by Stephanie Syjuco, featuring Related Tactics, The Prelinger Library, the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, and commissioned by the Public Knowledge initiative at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The project raised over $20,000 in two days to benefit education and community programs for the San Francisco Public Library. Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives, and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to directly participate as producers or distributors. Using critical wit and collaborative co- creation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. This has included starting a global collaborative project with crochet crafters to counterfeit high-end consumer goods, presenting parasitic art counterfeiting events, and developing alternative vending economies.
She is featured in Season 9 of the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. Recent exhibitions include “Being: New Photography” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Public Knowledge,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and “This Site is Under Revolution” at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. She will be featured in “Disrupting Craft: the 2018 Renwick Invitational” at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, opening November 2018. Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at MoMA/P.S.1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Technology, the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, The 12th Havana Bienal, The 2015 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan), among others. A long-time educator, she has taught at Stanford University, The California College of the Arts, The San Francisco Art Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, ... See MoreSee Less

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University of Arizona School of Art

5 days ago

We are excited to announce, that we will be continuing our weekly series called "Meet The Faculty" in which we introduce our amazing instructors who are teaching future scholars, artist, and innovators!

Last semester we left off right in the middle of Marks feature week. This week we are excited to continue introducing Mark and update you on some of his most recent work!

Meet Mark McKnight, our Visiting Assistant Professor in Photography, Video and Imaging! This semester he is teaching Intro to Dark Room Photography, Trends in Contemporary Photography, and Untrue Narratives! Mark got his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 and his MFA at The University of California, Riverside in 2015. The images above form part of his thesis series called "Removals". Find more about Mark this week as we feature him in our series! ... See MoreSee Less

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A special thanks to Tucson Weekly for the shout out of African for the first time and the wonderful summary of all of the arts events around town!Thanks to the Tucson Weekly for their annual Spring Arts Preview, which mentions a number of Arizona Arts offerings, like Papay Solomon's "African for the first time" (pictured) from the University of Arizona School of Art and several performances from The University of Arizona School of Dance, UA Presents and The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music.

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