James Sprang

Small Vertical Dawn, 2024

Woven cyanotype prints and UV varnish

34" x 25"

Framed: 39-1/2" x 31"

James Sprang

Lydian, 2024

Woven cyanotype prints, watercolor, UV varnish

67" x 50"

Framed: 74" x 56"

James Sprang

Ripple of Joy, 2024

Watercolor, acrylic and resin

40" x 40"

James Allister Sprang

Rapid Ray, 2023

Woven cyanotypes, acrylic, uv-resistant lacquer, wood

75" x 29-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

Sunset Ripple, 2023

Woven cyanotypes, watercolor, textile hardener, uv-resistant lacquer, wood

40" x 37"

James Allister Sprang

Biddeford Ripple, 2023

Woven cyanotypes, textile hardener, uv-resistant lacquer, wood

18" x 27"

James Allister Sprang

Agape, 2023

Woven cyanotypes, watercolor, textile hardener, uv-resistant lacquer, wood

28" x 22"

James Allister Sprang

Shattered Glass, 2019

Cyanotype

43" x 30"

Framed: 48" x 34-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

Sun and Shade, 2024

Woven cyanotype prints, watercolor and UV varnish

28" x 30"

Framed: 33" x 36"

James Allister Sprang

Blue Tonus, 2024

Woven cyanotype prints, watercolor, UV varnish

42" x 30"

Framed: 47-1/2" x 35"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 32), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 33), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 34), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 35), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 36), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 37), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 38), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

James Allister Sprang

A Sea of Notes (Excerpt 39), 2019

Cyanotype

9" x 6-3/4"

Framed: 10-3/4" x 7-1/2"

Press Release

James Allister Sprang is a multidisciplinary artist who creates immersive audiovisual installations and complex woven two-dimensional works. "I make sensory poems for the spirit," he says. Similarly to how he weaves genre and instrumentation together when composing and producing musical scores, he weaves prints and watercolor into dimensional, textural works of abstraction that celebrate the sensory experience of Black life. His first exhibition with Dowling Walsh Gallery, Each of Us Are Several is a multimedia installation that includes sound, elements of text, and wall-based work. In its varied forms, Sprang's work fosters connections between the tangible and intangible nature of being human in this ever-spinning world, between past and present, the known and the unknowable.

 

Sprang was born in Miami, FL, and received his BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. He is a 2022 Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellow, a 2023 Pew Fellow, and a 2024 YoungArts Fellow. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Kitchen, New York, NY; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine, Philadelphia, PA; Baryshnikov Arts Center Space, New York, NY; and the Fountainhead, Miami, FL. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the ICA at Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, ME; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Knockdown Center, New York, NY; and The Cooper Union, New York, NY, as well as in group exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA; Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, and David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and Art Papers, among others. He lives and works in Portland, ME.

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