James Siena

Posted: 12/02/10
Duration: 9:11
Producer: Robert Knafo
Views: 22213

James Siena's paintings are compact, intricate, finely crafted and geometric but at the same time very idiosyncratic abstractions, distantly related to early American modernists (he invokes Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O'Keefe as cherished ancestors). Working on metal panels since the early 90's, James Siena has recently been producing cartoony, surreal images with psycho-sexual overtones. NewArtTV visits the artist in his Chinatown studio as he works on a new painting.

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