Anthony James
Anthony James is a British-American artist based in Los Angeles, known for his monumental installations and sculptures. He was born in England in 1974 and studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1994 to 1998. His work gestures towards minimalism, materiality, process, alchemy, language, mechanisation and experimentation with light and space.
His sculptures operate between the iconic and the arbitrary, the concrete and the alchemic, the mythical and the experiential. James describes his work as “evoking pictorial depictions of the cosmos, alluding to notions of mysticism, ethereality, spirituality and science, all the while anchored through the use of weighty, industrial materials”.
The glass, steel, and LED structures bring a rigid and gleaming tangibility to the abstraction of the numerical calculation of flawless coherence. James’s artworks are compelling approximations, facsimiles of understanding and belief thousands of years old that come down to us on our own terms of modern metals and technological light.
His first monograph, ‘Morphic fields’, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2014. His work has recently been exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and is part of the Palm Springs Art Museum collection, USA.
In 2020, he was selected to be part of the Mayfair Sculpture Trail, with his 97 inches high Crystal piece displayed in Old Bond Street.
SELECTED WORKS
Anthony James, 36" Wall Portal (Aged copper)
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights
91,4 x 91,4 x 38,1 cm | 36 x 36 x 15 in
Anthony James, 50" Octagon Wall Portal, 2019
Powdercoated stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights, Solar Black finish
127 x 127 x 38,1 cm | 50 x 50 x 15 in
Anthony James, 60" Triacontahedron (Solar Black)
Stainless steel, glass, LED lights
152,4 x 152,4 cm | 60 x 60 in
Anthony James, 40” Icosahedron (Jet Black)
Stainless steel, glass, LED lights
101,6 x 101,6 x 101,6 cm | 40 x 40 x 40 in
Anthony James, 24" Dodecahedron (Solar White), 2020
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights
71,1 x 76,2 x 61 cm | 28 x 30 x 24 in
Anthony James, 24” Tetrahedron (Gold), 2019
Black nickel plated steel, glass, LED lights
61 x 61 x 61 cm | 24 x 24 x 24 in
Anthony James, 60" Rectified Truncated Cuboctahedron (Solar Black), 2020
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights
152,4 x 152,4 x 149,9 cm | 60 x 60 x 59 in
Anthony James, 60” Wall Mounted Birch (Cherry Frame), 2019
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights, birch, cherry wood frame
76.2 x 152.4 x 38.1 cm | 30 x 60 x 15 in
Anthony James, 50” Icosahedron, 2019
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights, Solar Black finish
127 x 127 x 127 cm | 50 x 50 x 50 in
Anthony James, 36” Wall Portal (Silver Birch Gray), 2020
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights, Silver Birch Grey finish
91.4 x 91.4 x 38.1 cm | 36 x 36 x 15 in
Anthony James, 30” Bullet Painting, 2020
Polished stainless steel
76.2 x 76.2 cm | 30 x 30 in
Anthony James, Truncated Cube Bench (Solar Black), 2021
Steel, LED lights, double sided glass
40,6 x 203,2 x 48,3 cm | 16 x 80 x 19 in
Anthony James, 60 x 30” Wall Portal (Solar Black), 2022
Steel, LED lights, double sided glass
152,4 x 76,2 x 30,5 cm | 60 x 30 x 12 in
Anthony James, 60” Bullet Projector Dodecahedron (Solar Black), 2021
Steel, LED lights, double sided glass
152,4 x 152,4 x 152,4 cm | 60 x 60 x 60 in
Anthony James, Ferrari 250 GTO (Copper), 2021
Copper repoussé
142,2 x 426,7 x 182,9 cm | 56 x 168 x 72 in
Anthony James, Bizzarrini Strada (Aluminium), 2022
Aluminium
152,4 x 190,5 x 452,1 cm | 60 x 75 x 178 in
Anthony James, 80" Icosahedron (Solar Black), 2019
Stainless steel, specialised glass, LED lights
203 x 203 x 203 cm | 80 x 80 x 80 in