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Artful Lives - Jean Jarvaise
James Jarvaise Rediscovered September 2012
In the acknowledgments, Louis Stern of the eponymous gallery in Los Angeles notes the profound influence of Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Canning Miller, and writes, “Her selection of James Jarvaise for inclusion in the 1959 Sixteen Americans exhibition had the potential to change his professional destiny...”
KCRW Interview March 2015
The most youthful art that I have seen this month is produced by James Jarvaise, who is 91. If these collages were downtown at an industrial space, anyone would be scanning the information sheet on the entry desk to check out the MFA status and recent shows of this emerging artist. But looking more closely, it would be clear that the sophistication of composition and surface treatment are the very qualities that the artist has acquired over some seventy years spent in his studio. Louis Stern Fine Arts presents James Jarvaise: Collages Redux through April 25.