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Terrell James

TERRELL JAMES

Myth Cadogan Gallery 11 December 2024–15 February 2025 Milan
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Cadogan Gallery is delighted to announce our new exhibition with Texan artist Terrell James. Represented by Cadogan since 2015, this will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work entitled “Myth,” James shifts her focus slightly from nature and an abstracted, internalized landscape, to a new investigation of shape and form. Re-engaging with the use of line in her painting, the artist brings energy to a more defined space.

“Myths help explain our nature, rites and experiences in the world. I agree with what Mark Rothko said: ”[I am] dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.” The painting titled Myth, suggests a stone head hovering above a somewhat playful landscape, influenced by Aztec sculpture I have studied in Mexico City.

My work often refers to the process of painting. The game of chance is also an element in my approach. I value evocation, traces, imprints, over depiction. How a Poem Begins shows fragments of landscape with palm trees interrupting the planes of color, drawn in and through shades of turquoise, aqua and blue. Sovereign and This Place, This Time are colorful landscapes with similar structure, both emphasizing drawing, bisecting the horizon line within the painted fields.

The works in the exhibition are abstractions that have been evolving to include these more defined shapes and references to mythic form and the city.”

—Terrell James

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About the Artist

Terrell James, a well-known Texan contemporary artist, paints the natural world through her own unique abstract lens. Her work emerges from her close attention to organic form; her process mirrors its emergence in the landscape and in nature. Although they interpret rather than depict the landscape, the organic shapes of her works allude directly to their origins in plants, animals, fossils, and glaciers. James’ expressions of her ‘familiar obsessions’ flow automatically from the subconscious as her works unfold.

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About the Gallery

Cadogan is an independent contemporary art gallery with spaces in London, Hampshire and Milan. For over forty years our mission has been to represent, support and curate the work of a diverse roster of emerging and established artists. We care deeply about longevity, developing the careers of our artists and the journey of our collectors.

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