Event Review - James Nares at MAM

In Conversation: James Nares

Saturday, January 28, 3:00pm   Lubar Auditorium, Milwaukee Art Museum
in conjunction with  Helen Levitt: In the Street | James Nares: In the City 
January 27 through April 16, 2017

by Kathryn

James Nares spoke about his work at Milwaukee Art museum His film, Streets, is currently being shown at the MAM until April 16th.

James Nares is a British artist that is currently lives and works in New York City. Nares works in may media and is best know as a contemporary painter. The painting that he is known for are paintings that are made with one single stroke of the paint brush. He also makes short films and videos that focuses on a wide variety of different concepts, such as movement, repetition and rhythm. Nares is more known for this paintings and films than his photography.

Nares has three different ways he makes his painting. One of the ways is, he makes a single swipe of a brush across a surface. If he does not like what he did he will ease it and redo the stroke over and over again until he is happy with the final product. These painting are done with brushes that he personally designs, so he can record the movement onto the canvas they way he wants it

The series, “ Road Paint”, is created with the use of a mechanical road striper.This is another way Nares paints. He used the road striper to spread a viscous white paint across the black canvas

One more way Nares created his painting is, by wrapping sheets of paper around a steel drum. Then takes a paint brush attached to a homemade ink dispenser, and, barely moving his hand, forms strings of color

    

Nares is known for his video called “Streets”. He recorded sixteen hours of people on the streets of Manhattan from a moving car. He slowed his videos down and edited it to one hour.