{"id":11390,"date":"2021-06-03T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:17:48","slug":"james-esber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/james-esber\/","title":{"rendered":"James Esber"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3124\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11390-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/JamesEsber.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/JamesEsber.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/JamesEsber.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div class=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped.jpg?resize=300%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C802&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C601&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1203&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1604&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C545&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C836&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=536%2C420&amp;ssl=1 536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JEcropped-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Working in the border territory between abstraction and representation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesesber.com\/pages\/index.php\">James Esber<\/a> uses a variety of media to disassemble and distort the emotionally charged and often clich\u00e9d images of Americana. The characters he\u2019s drawn to, pawed-over icons of popular culture, include things like gunslingers, flag-wavers, dimpled children holding flowers, deadbeat alcoholic dads, and self-absorbed selfie-takers. His paintings, built through a process of hyperbolic mark-making, are done with myopic focus on each part, shifting between scales and allowing for improvised digressions which nudge the image toward abstraction. The resulting hybrid images are often fragmenting and imploding while at the same time stubbornly retaining their integrity.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">James Esber has shown his work in New York and abroad including a 25-year survey at the Clifford Gallery at Colgate University (2014) and a solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT (2011). He has had multiple one-person shows at PPOW, NYC, Bernard Tolle in Boston and Pierogi in both New York and Leipzig. He has also shown widely in group exhibitions, including One Work at the Tang Museum (2014), The Land of Earthly Delights at The Laguna Art Museum (2008), and SITE Santa Fe\u2019s Fifth International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (2004).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He lives in Brooklyn, NY and is represented by Pierogi Gallery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The book mentioned in the interview is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/227750\/the-inkblots-by-damion-searls\/\">The Inkblots by Damion Searls<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11439\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11439\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero.jpg?resize=640%2C514&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C822&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C617&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1234&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1645&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C559&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C858&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?resize=523%2C420&amp;ssl=1 523w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hero-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hero, 2021, Acrylic on PVC panel, 48 x 62.5 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11440\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11440\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1.jpg?resize=640%2C814&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=805%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 805w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C977&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=1207%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=1610%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1610w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C885&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1359&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?resize=330%2C420&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?w=2012&amp;ssl=1 2012w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TwoGuns.1-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinker 2, 2020, Acrylic on PVC panel, 40.5 x 32 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/JamesEsber.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listWorking in the border territory between abstraction and representation, James Esber uses a variety of media to disassemble and distort the emotionally charged and often clich\u00e9d images of Americana. 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