James Walsh

Winter Workspace Program 2011
Glyndor Gallery | February 15 – March 27, 2011

James Walsh was born in Brooklyn, NY, studied literature at Hobart College, Geneva, NY and Oxford University, England, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He has been making visual work in a variety of media since 1986, and has shown throughout the United States and in Turkey, Italy, England, and Sweden. He is the author of two books, Foundations (1997) and Solvitur ambulando (2003), and numerous unique and limited-edition artist’s books. Awards and residencies include a Fulbright Fellowship to Turkey and residencies at MacDowell Colony, The Edward Albee Foundation, Art Omi, and Center for Book Arts. His work comes out of a love for natural history, particularly the history of natural history. For the past three years he has been learning botany by identifying, pressing and mounting plants found in his neighborhood, which has resulted in two ongoing projects, A Flora of the Gowanus and the Index to Arctic Plants of New York City.

Cover of the artist’s book Index to Arctic Plants of New York City, 2010

Medicago lupulina or Black Medick, an arctic/NYC plant found growing wild in Brooklyn