Jim Condron Explained

Jim Condron
Birth Date:January 4, 1970
Birth Place:Long Island, NY, U.S.
Education:Bachelor of Arts, Colby College; Master of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art
Known For:Painting, Sculpture, Mixed Media

Jim Condron is an American artist working in painting and sculpture. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Baltimore, MD.

Early life and education

Originally from Long Island, NY and Connecticut, Condron earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art and English from Colby College in Waterville, ME. He then began a career in investment banking, but resigned his position to attend The New York Studio School.[1] Condron relocated to Baltimore [2] and went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts at the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004.

Painting and sculpture

Condron works in a "bold abstract style" referred to as "contemporary Dada"[3] that fuses painting and sculpture.[4] J. Susan Isaacs has noted: "Through his combination of the absurd with the sublime, Condron explores narratives not only specific to being an artist but also those shared by all of us. The balancing of the serious with the comedic is one of the strengths of Condron’s work." Associate Editor of The New Criterion Andrew L. Shea observes that Condron's process sees him "taking fragments of personal experience and translating them into a more universal idea through form." Condron's early works were primarily oil paintings in an Impressionistic style, such as those displayed in an exhibition at the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum in 2010.[5] In 2013, Condron reached a point where he grew "completely sick of painting in general; sick of all my tired ideas of what it meant to be a painter."[6] He then began to work in a new process in which he fused mixed media installations with painting and sculpture to form Postmodern "collage-paintings,"[7] in a style reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg's "Combines."[8] These works often feature "explosive contrasts of color, from hot pink to red to various shades of blue and brown." Condron's works are given titles excerpted (without attribution) from literature by authors such as Don De Lillo, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, and others. Uniquely, Condron's collages tend to contain objects that have some sentimental value (rather than simply "found objects"), forming connections that are "at once banal and poignant."[9] Condron debuted these assemblages in a solo exhibition at the Fireplace Project at the Surf Lodge in Montauk, NY and in a joint exhibition with painter Kristin Liu, Your Memories, Your Sentiments, Your Wishes, Your Secrets, at Adah Rose Gallery in 2015.

In 2019, Condron installed 10 sculptures at the Muscular Dystrophy Association's "Wings Over Wall Street" event, in honor of his mother Karen Condron, who passed away from ALS in July 2018.[10] The artworks combined clothing from his mother's wardrobe with items from Condron's childhood to form deeply personal abstract sculptures that "express the great complexity of nostalgia and embody [the artist's] deep grief."[11]

Awards and residencies

Condron has been a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (where he received the foundation's highest award),[12] an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council grant for sculpture, among several other grants and awards;[13] he was also named a finalist for 2022 Bethesda Painting Awards.[14] He has been awarded residencies at Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY;[15] The New York Studio School Sculpture Space, Dumbo, NY;[16] The Heliker La Hotan Foundation, Great Cranberry Island, ME; The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY;[17] and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA.

Condron's most recent academic lectures include a conversation with American painter Amy Sherald.[18] He also continues to exhibit his work regularly at galleries, museums,[19] universities,[20] [21] and art fairs.[22]

Public collections

Selected public collections include:

Selected exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Always Believed The Good: A Conversation Between Artist Jim Condron and Painter Amy Sherald . New School Studio . 14 July 2021.
  2. News: Fortin . Cassandra A. . Artist fuses spirituality, nature in paintings . 18 June 2020 . The Baltimore Sun . May 1, 2005.
  3. Web site: Juliette . Rebecca . BmoreArt's Picks: Baltimore Art Galleries, Openings, and Events November 7 – 13 . BMore Art . 7 November 2017 . 10 May 2020.
  4. News: Editorial Team . Adah Rose Gallery Presents Your Memories, Your Sentiments, Your Wishes, Your Secrets . 10 May 2020 . East City Art . January 12, 2015.
  5. Web site: Ober. Cara. May 6, 2010. Stillness in Movement Paintings by Jim Condron May 6-June 26, 2010. 10 May 2020. BMore Art.
  6. News: Gourlay . Maggie . Visual Arts Viewpoint: An Interview with Baltimore Artist Jim Condron . 8 May 2020 . DC Metro Theatre Arts . January 29, 2015.
  7. News: Jenkins . Mark . In the galleries: Images of history, in black and white, from a German photographer . 10 May 2020 . Washington Post . February 6, 2015.
  8. Web site: Review of Jim Condron and Timothy Horjus at Goucher University . AEQAI . 8 May 2020.
  9. Web site: Exhibition at Loyola University includes more than 35 works of art by Jim Condron . Art Daily . 10 May 2020.
  10. Web site: James . Lauren . Muscular Dystrophy Association - Wings Over Wall Street . Invite NYC . 29 May 2019 . 10 May 2020.
  11. Web site: MDA Staff . Do You Know ALS? Meet Jim . Muscular Dystrophy Association . 21 May 2019 . 9 May 2020.
  12. News: Smith . Tim . Baltimore-based artist Jim Condron receives $30,000 Pollock-Krasner award . 7 May 2020 . The Baltimore Sun . Jan 31, 2017.
  13. Web site: Isaacs . J. Susan . Painting in Three Dimensions . BMore Art . 27 November 2017 . 7 May 2020.
  14. Web site: 2022 Bethesda Painting Awards Finalists Announced East City Art . Easy City Art . 19 December 2022 . 17 May 2022.
  15. Web site: ARTIST - JIM CONDRON . Art Cake . 19 December 2022.
  16. Shea . Andrew L. . An Interview with Jim Condron . The New Criterion . September 15, 2020 . 12 October 2020.
  17. Web site: Albee Fellows: 2014 . 8 May 2020.
  18. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Amy Sherald & Jim Condron in Conversation New York Studio School . YouTube.
  19. Web site: American Visionary Art Museum . Raw Vision . 10 May 2020.
  20. Web site: New Art Exhibition Celebrates Wilson College Sesquicentennial . Wilson College . 10 May 2020.
  21. Web site: Wilson College . Condron '92 Exhibition at Wilson College Opens Sept. 4 . Colby College . 15 July 2020.
  22. Web site: Hope . Eric . Gallerist Adah Rose Bitterbaum Named Juror for EMULSION 2015 . East City Art . 16 December 2014 . 10 May 2020.
  23. News: Alumni at Large: 1992 . 15 July 2020 . 3 . Colby Magazine . Fall 2009. 98 .
  24. Web site: Past Exhibits: Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery . Mather House, Harvard University . 15 July 2020.
  25. Web site: Noel Permanent Collection .
  26. Web site: Yaniv . Etty . Jim Condron: Collected Things at Art Cake – Art Spiel . Art Spiel . 31 August 2023 . 1 June 2023.
  27. News: Obenreder . Gail . One Man's Trash... . 10 May 2020 . Broad Street Review . July 9, 2019.
  28. News: McBride . Matt . A Bowling Pin Turned Sideways Becomes a Lopsided Way to Signify Infinity: Jim Condron at Wilson College's Cooley Art Gallery . 10 May 2020 . AEQAI . October 26, 2019.
  29. Web site: Parenting: An Art without a Manual . American Visionary Art Museum . 10 May 2020.
  30. News: Juliette . Rebecca . BmoreArt's Picks: Baltimore Art Galleries, Openings, and Events September 2–5 . 10 May 2020 . BMore Arts . September 1, 2015.
  31. Web site: Adah Rose Gallery (Kensington, Md) Returns To Miami For Pulse 2014 With Artists Jim Condron, Randall Lear And Jessica Drenk . Mapanare . 10 May 2020.

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