James Havard Art
American, b. 1937
For more than 40 years, James Havard has been producing paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures that defy categorization, ranging from abstraction and illusionism to figuration, combining and pioneering styles, and drawing from indigenous and tribal cultures and art history to create an exuberant visual language at once hermetic and universal. He first gained recognition in the 1970s for pioneering an approach to painting, known as “Abstract Illusionism,” in which individual brushstrokes and abstract forms were shaded to appear three-dimensional. By the late 1980s, he turned to figuration, populating his compositions with radically pared-down, roughly hewn male and female figures inspired by Native American, African tribal, and pre-Colombian art, cave painting, and children’s drawings, and recalling Art Brut. Raw, expressive, and, ultimately, enigmatic, these figures also appear in Havard’s boxed collages and sculptures—a medium he began exploring in 2002.(Biography provided by Adelson Galleries)
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Item Ships From: New Mexico
Artist: James Havard
Animal Bug
By James Havard
Located in Santa Fe, NM
James Havard draws from Native American, African tribal and outsider art for his abstract figurative style which evokes the psychological renderings of a dream. The American artist was known as a pioneer of “abstract illusionism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary James Havard Art
Materials
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Aunt Shemack
By James Havard
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Aunt Shemak is an oil and collage on wood panel by James Havard. Aunt Shemak is signed by Havard.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist James Havard Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
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