JIM IRVINE
Artist-in-Resident
Fall 2023-2025
ARTIST STATEMENT
My goal is to create art that pulls people in, by exploring the kaleidoscope of light, movement, and experiences that resurface in Day Dreams and become the inspiration of these mixed media works on canvas and paper. I work at distilling the essence of the memory, structure, color, and mark making to create a multi-layered experience, allowing one to escape into the moment, producing something a bit unexpected, drawing the viewer in, to look a little closer until they almost touch it.
DATES TO
REMEMBER
Friday, September 14th -
Meet the Artist & Private Tour of Studio
Salon des Artistes & THAT Open Studio
CV/BIOGRAPHY
Jim was born in Chicago and grew up in Pennsylvania. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife, two teenaged boys, and a high energy dog who occasionally eats his acrylic paints.
I started my creative journey early, except unlike other toddlers that might color on walls, I found a paper clip and began etching into the doorway woodwork. My need for creating art with a strong sense of mark making continued at Pratt, leading to a BFA in Fine Arts. I have created work featured in magazines and in group and juried shows, as well as commissions by private collectors.
Additionally, I have worked extensively in magazine publishing and the financial services industry, currently serving as a VP of Corporate Branding and Creative Services Manager, at Chubb Insurance.
Favorite Quote
“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I prefer to see with my eyes closed.”
– Josef Albers
EXHIBITIONS
Hunterdon Art Museum — Juried Show — October 2022 — January, 2024
Group Show — Pictor Gallery — “Summertime Blues” — June 20 – July 15, 2023
Solo Show — Pictor Gallery — “Day Dreams” — March 28 — April 22, 2023
Group show — The Gallery at Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach, Princeton NJ —
“Four Voices in Abstraction” — November 2022 — January, 2023
Group Show — Pictor Gallery — “Holiday Invitational Show” — December 2022
Hunterdon Art Museum — Juried Show — October 2022 — January 2022
Commissioned Painting — Chubb Insurance for the US Open — September 2022
Group Show — Barsky Gallery — Westfield — August 2022
Virtual Show — Pictor Gallery — “Different Vision”— May 2022
Hunterdon Art Museum — “THAT Wall of Small” — April 29 — May30 2022
The Hunterdon Museum — Art Tour — April 30 — May 1, 2022
Group Show — Pictor Gallery Show — January 2022
Group Show — Pictor Gallery Show — “Different Vision” 3 person show — September 2021
Group Show — Pictor Gallery Show — First Invitational — July 2021
Solo Exhibit — MGalleries Show — “Outside In” Outside In — June 2019
Hunterdon Art Museum Members Exhibition — Juried Show — August 2019 — January 2020
Solo Exhibit — MGalleries Show — “InBetween” — February 2019
Group Show — MGalleries Show — “Nature3 — March 2018
The Center for Contemporary Arts — 2018 Member’s Non-Juried Exhibition — June 22 – August 31, 2018
Group Show — The Maritime Garage Gallery — “A Reverence For Nature” — Norwalk CT
June 13 to September 28 2018
Group Show — The Maritime Garage Gallery — “Thousand Words” — Norwalk CT Worth a Thousand Words — Norwalk CT — January 29 to May 11, 2018
The Center for Contemporary Art — 2018 Members' Juried Exhibition — Frontline Arts, Branchburg NJ—March 1 – 24 2018
The Center for Contemporary Art — CCA 2017 Members' Juried Exhibition — Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ — February 6-25, 2017
The Center for Contemporary Art — 2017 Members' non-Juried Exhibition — June 23 – September 7, 2017
The Center for Contemporary Art — 2016 Members’ Non-Juried Exhibition — June 24 – September 3, 2016
Group Show — The Somerset County Business Partnership’s exhibition, Bridgewater, NJ — March through May 2016.
Private Collections
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania