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 Rebeka Schmieder
James Nares is a jack of all trades artist. He has sunk is hands into art forms that explore time in different mediums. His work is experimental and expressive. He was born in England and moved to New York to pursue his career as an artist in 1974. Nares work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
He is an inventor because most of works required him to create instruments to achieve his vision. His large scale paintings required him to make his own brushes that created a seamless free-forming stroke across the canvas. His most recent work, Street, is confronting and mesmerizing. This slow-motion video focuses on the small moments in time. In his talk he mentioned that his purpose for making this video was to find those small cracks in time where people put their guard down.
He is an inventor because most of works required him to create instruments to achieve his vision. His large scale paintings required him to make his own brushes that created a seamless free-forming stroke across the canvas. His most recent work, Street, is confronting and mesmerizing. This slow-motion video focuses on the small moments in time. In his talk he mentioned that his purpose for making this video was to find those small cracks in time where people put their guard down.
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| Street James Nares |
What I found in most of his works was Nares interest in how time effects different things. I notice this more in his films than his paintings. I connected with Street because street photography has always been one of my "back burner" interests. When I sat down in the viewing space, I got fully immersed into the film. I saw what would be in real time split seconds, as the cracks in time that Nares was talking about in his lecture. I also enjoyed the music that accompanied the film. This simple guitar acoustics made me think more about individuals in the video. Nares said that movement is music, so he made the choice music based on this notion. I think that when I took street photos I didn't pay attention to so much the little moments, but the overall picture so to speak. There is so much life in the city and to zoom in on the so called cracks in time would give more clarity and meaning to my street photography.
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