J. A. Wallace
with
'Over Mountain Streams and Green Meadows'

Exhibition 20th - 30th July 2005

J. A. Wallace gets back to basics in this performative work, in an attemped to strip his practice back to a few key elements.
Explosive force with its related disaster potentiality, the sublime, and artist-as-inept-inventor are played against each other in this installation and performance.

Think of the palette of a plein aire landscape painter; pastel blues, greens, pinks and yellows, and then remember James is not well known as a painter, rather as an inventor and disaster creator, so he's using painting as a means.

Like a sublime landscape painter, he's chosen a familliar landscape, that of Canary's walls and floors. Built by his own bare hands, these walls are his frontier and for his purpose resemble those revelatory, epic landscapes painted in nineteenth-century America by the great sublime painters.

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