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James Van Arsdale
James Van Arsdale
Alive in the Present Moment
Leather, metal studs
2020
40"x50"
$1,500
James Van Arsdale
Circle Zap
Denim, faux leather, embroidered patch
2020
60"x30"
$1,500
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Artist Statement
Van Arsdale explores psychological development, through the youth and drug experiments of our lives, via memory, nostalgia and sub-cultural referents to place his inquiry within a dialogue concerning the role music plays in forming our understanding of one’s own place in the world. We are not separate from this entangled existence, not objective with any real emotional distance - our musical histories a significant part of who we are and what we think.
Artist Bio
James Van Arsdale is a mixed media artist, designer, musician, and educator living and working in the Santa Barbara area. Van Arsdale received an MFA from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has exhibited widely since 1999 at venues including the Torrance Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, University of Texas at Dallas, Brookhaven College (Dallas, TX), TSALA, Blue Star Art Complex (San Antonio, TX) and University of LaVerne (CA). He was a co-founder of community art studio collective The Can(n)on. A life-long musician, Van Arsdale has also recorded extensively and performed music throughout the United States with a variety of groups.