Published On: April 30th, 2019Categories: Uncategorized



SOLO EXHIBITION “METROS” OPENED SATURDAY OCTOBER 11th 2014
James McNabb is a Philadelphia based artist working primarily in wood. His creations of cityscape
inspired sculptures explore sociological concepts regarding transformations of cities and urban
landscapes, their beauty, uniqueness, and overdevelopment. In his sculptures, McNabb uses scrap
pieces of wood,, some with very unique and alluring characteristics, that are contextualized to
draw new meaning out of the material and force the viewer to create his or her own perspective of
the urban landscape. McNabb blends traditional woodworking technique with experimental mark
making using a bandsaw. This intuitive process, referred to as “sketching with a bandsaw” allows
the artist to generate forms rapidly, working through new and exciting ideas without preliminary
design development. This approach to woodworking is an attempt to capture the fast paced, crude
mark-making that is commonly found in contemporary urban art. The resulting works in “METROS»
are distorted compositions of abstracted architectural forms, exploring the limitless possibilities of
the urban landscape and our human relationship to it.

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