James Allister Sprang
Each of Us Are Several
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland
July 5 – August 24, 2024
Sunset Ripple (detail), 2023
Woven cyanotypes, textile hardener,
uv-resistant lacquer, wood, 27" x 18"
© James Allister Sprang / Courtesy Dowling Walsh Gallery
Dowling Walsh Gallery presents Each of Us Are Several,a solo exhibition of work by artist James Allister Sprang.
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, James Allister 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.
JAMES ALLISTER 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 Young Arts 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.
Also on view at Dowling Walsh Gallery:
Jenny Brillhart, July 5 – 27, 2024
Bo Bartlett, July 5 – 27, 2024
DOWLING WALSH GALLERY
365 Main Street, Rockland, Maine 04841
