James Gortner Exhibit Work at Art Basel

VillageOneArt Collaborative Artist James Gortner exhibited his work this year at Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs from December 1-3, 2022. Gortner’s work was shown on Waterhouse & Dodd, Art Miami Exhibit.

This year marks the fair’s 20th anniversary in Miami and features over 280 exhibitors, 20 large-scale projects, 29 installations, and a conversation series with critics, collectors, and artists.

James Gortner paints with his personal conflicts, moods, and dreams, in combination with other people’s stories and the magical myths of past and present. Gortner makes rich, colorful, and layered work that begins from discarded art. which he collects from thrift stores, the internet, friend’s donations, and the street.

“In all the ways I paint, I’m drawn to the subject of transformation. Passing into and from something else. I also like thinking of self-expression, interconnectedness of people, their collective subjectivity, how we are connected on the level of quantum physics, through time, social conditioning, shared spirituality, a collective imagination, our dreams, and finally how this manifests in our senses of identity,” says Gortner.