"Melding folk art with the digital age, Charles Henry James is at once dystopian and utopian. His paintings are visual embodiments of the complex set of political, moral, ethical, and aesthetic contradictions we feel every time we crack a browser. As testimonies to the power of paint in a world of pixels, these paintings are urgent, at once eternally iconic and at the same time, pulsatingly now." — Kenneth Goldsmith, American poet, artist, and author
My mind is a whirlwind of ideas, concepts, fears, fantasies. This churning kaleidoscope is a sometimes frightening, unstoppable force. My work is a safety valve, pouring out visual responses to the chaos. The ingredients include ontology, taoism, psychedelics, and the kitchen sink. Add a deep disdain for corporatist culture and you have an idea where my art is coming from. The work distills what I hope is a potent artistic extract. — Charles Henry James
My mind is a whirlwind of ideas, concepts, fears, fantasies. This churning kaleidoscope is a sometimes frightening, unstoppable force. My work is a safety valve, pouring out visual responses to the chaos. The ingredients include ontology, taoism, psychedelics, and the kitchen sink. Add a deep disdain for corporatist culture and you have an idea where my art is coming from. The work distills what I hope is a potent artistic extract. — Charles Henry James