James Walsh
“For the past five years I’ve been learning botany by identifying, pressing, and mounting plants in my neighborhood, which has resulted in two ongoing multi-media projects, The Arctic Plants of New York City and The Flora of the Gowanus. This installation of elements from The Flora of the Gowanus project uses pressed plants and traced texts to document and reflect on the rich array of plant life flourishing along the banks of the Gowanus
Canal.” – James Walsh
James Walsh was born in Brooklyn, NY, studied literature at Hobart College, Geneva, NY and Oxford University, England, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He has been making visual work in a variety of media since 1986, and has shown throughout the United States and Europe. He is the author of three books, Foundations (1997), Solvitur ambulando (2003), and There was Something in the Weather (2012), and numerous unique and limitededition artist’s books. Awards and residencies include a Fulbright
Fellowship to Turkey and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, The Edward Albee Foundation, Art Omi, The Center for Book Arts, and apexart. His work comes out of a love for natural history, particularly the history of natural history.