James Iannone

Work      

About  

1992


1992 was a pivotal year for me. Mainly because It was my  most prolific year, making bigger more interesting work. While expanding my scope and vision of who, what, where, and why I was making art. I had a rare and very lucky opportunity to audit a class for a year taught by Alfred DeCredico (an uncle by marriage) at RISD in 1991-1992. As well as being his assistant for a very short period of time imparted in me a sense of passion and creative energy that made me scrutinize what type of Artist I was going to become. Showing me to push the limits of the material I was working with whatever that may have been. Looking at artists that would propel these questions even further. What was an underlying theme throughout this year was, “create, create, DESTROY, create”. 

Working on my art as much as I could while working full time in an auto parts warehouse I became friends with a couple of students during this time that were very talented and very kind to me. Allowing me to hang out, drink tea, stay up very late, and explore and create together. Their generosity will never be forgotten. 

Finding a studio space with almost unlimited space to make anything I wanted was a key ingredient in the process to push things even further. Getting more physically involved in the act of creating help to put my whole self in my work. 

Seeing shapes and textures rise up after the trials of self editing could be seen (these works seen on this sight). Certain patterns and vocabularies that develop in these works are related to light and shadows found in nature, simple chemical interactions both theoretical and practical, other artists works such as Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys served as an inspiration to the work.


Untitled 
Ink on found photograph 
17x5.5
Untitled
Mixed media collage on Stonehenge
22x30
Two coloms
Mixed media collage 
27.5x22
Untitled
Mixed media collage
22x30
Verge of Magma
Mixed media on arches
15x18.5
Floating Approaching
Mixed media on paper 
30x40
Snake In My Blood (2 of 2)
Mixed media collage, Chinese money, Arabic newspaper
8.75x9.5
Snake In My Blood
Mixed media collage, Chinese money, Arabic newspaper
8.75x9.5
Untitled 
Mixed media collage 
7.5x9
Untitled diptych (1 of 2)
Mixed media on paper 
Untitled
Mixed media collage, partially burned on paper 
11.5x15
Drilling Rig
Mixed media on paper 
11x15
Untitled
Mixed media on 4 joined sheets of Stonehenge 
40x38
Floating Approaching
Mixed media on paper 
30x40
Untitled
Mixed media on arches
22x30
Untitled
Mixed media with tracing paper 
30x22.5
Untitled
Mixed media on paper 
30x22
Stellar Alpha Transactional
Mixed media collage with billboard fragments & vinyl bags
22x30
Well Nurtured Well 1
Mixed media on diptych
30x22
Well Nurtured Well 
Mixed media on diptych
30x22
Ox
Mixed media on paper 
30x11 
Trip play 
Mixed media on paper 
30x11
Untitled 
Mixed media with wax on paper
15x22.5
Under Hypnosis
Mixed media on stonehenge 
22x30
Untitled
Mixed media on stonehenge 
22x30

Untitled
Mixed media on paper  
22x30
Untitled (1 of 4)
Mixed media on paper  
18x25.5
Untitled (2 of 4)
Mixed media on paper  
18x25.5
Untitled (3 of 4)
Mixed media on paper  
18x25.5
Untitled (4 of 4)
Mixed media on paper  
18x25.5

©1987—2023

Providence, Rhode Island