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James McVicker

James McVicker (Born 1951) is active/lives in California.  James McVicker is known for Super real still life, landscape.

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Still life and landscape painter, James McVicker creates compositions that reflect 19th and 20th century traditions.

His dramatically lit studio still lifes recall orientalist motifs (blooming flowers in antique vases set against richly colored Turkish carpets), and are updated by direct rendering of the objects and cropping of the edges of the picture plane.

McVicker paints his landscapes directly on site in Eureka and the Loleta Valley. Writing in the catalogue essay, poet Bill Mohr observes: "No artist masters the unseen, but McVicker's portrayal of its strength in our existence is reassuring to those who wish to persist in search of hidden meanings, hidden proofs."

The self-taught artist has shown nationally and throughout California. In 1999 he completed a large mural commission in the Dining Room at the San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse. His work has been featured in Art & Antiques, Art of California, American Artist magazine and in the book, The Artist   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6736 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about James McVicker

   James McVicker  Born:  1951 - Fontana, California
Known for:  Super real still life, landscape
Name variants:  Jim McVicker

Biography from the Archives of askART

Still life and landscape painter, James McVicker creates compositions that reflect 19th and 20th century traditions.

His dramatically lit studio still lifes recall orientalist motifs (blooming flowers in antique vases set against richly colored Turkish carpets), and are updated by direct rendering of the objects and cropping of the edges of the picture plane.

McVicker paints his landscapes directly on site in Eureka and the Loleta Valley. Writing in the catalogue essay, poet Bill Mohr observes: "No artist masters the unseen, but McVicker's portrayal of its strength in our existence is reassuring to those who wish to persist in search of hidden meanings, hidden proofs."

The self-taught artist has shown nationally and throughout California. In 1999 he completed a large mural commission in the Dining Room at the San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse. His work has been featured in Art & Antiques, Art of California, American Artist magazine and in the book, The Artist and the American Landscape (First Glance Books, 1998).

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Biography from Sotheby's New York

Born 1951 in Fontana, California, Jim McVicker has been a full-time artist since 1975. He has had more than 40 one person and group shows over the past 45 years including shows at the Irvine Museum of Art, Morris Graves Museum of Art Eureka, Shasta College Art Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York City, Humboldt State University, George Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, California, Gumps Gallery San Francisco, CA, Hackett Freedman Gallery San Francisco, CA and John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

He works with a number of galleries in California, Oregon, Utah, Florida and Connecticut, a few of which include: Huse Skelly Gallery, Balboa, Fairmont Gallery, Sonoma, Mission Gallery, St George, Utah, and J.M. Stringer Gallery, Vero Beach, Florida.

He has numerous works in public collections and on public view in venues such as: the Irvine Museum of Art, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Hiram Johnson State Office Building, San Francisco, CA, the Beverly Hills Hotel, Ritz Carlton, Pasadena, CA., Exxon Corporation, Irving TX, Nagaragawa, Ramada Hotel, Gifu Japan, State of Wyoming, Douglas, WY, The Sutter Club, Sacramento, CA, and the Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco.

His works have been published in numerous media outlets and books including:

Painting California Seascape and Beach Towns by Jean Stern and Molly Siple,

Plein Air Magazine

Catching the Light, North Coast Journal, Cover Story, by George Ringwald

Art From the Parks, by Rachel Rugin Wolfe,

North Light Books

The Artist and The American Landscape, by John Driscoll and Arnold Skolnick,

First Glance Books, Landscapes of the West, Phippen Museum of Western Art, Prescott, AZ.,

The Artists Magazine

American Artist Magazine


Biography from Sotheby's New York

Born 1951 in Fontana, California, Jim McVicker has been a full-time artist since 1975. He has had more than 40 one person and group shows over the past 45 years including shows at the Irvine Museum of Art, Morris Graves Museum of Art Eureka, Shasta College Art Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York City, Humboldt State University, George Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, California, Gumps Gallery San Francisco, CA, Hackett Freedman Gallery San Francisco, CA and John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA. He works with a number of galleries in California, Oregon, Utah, Florida and Connecticut, a few of which include: Huse Skelly Gallery, Balboa, Fairmont Gallery, Sonoma, Mission Gallery, St George, Utah, and J.M. Stringer Gallery, Vero Beach, Florida. He has numerous works in public collections and on public view in venues such as: the Irvine Museum of Art, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Hiram Johnson State Office Building, San Francisco, CA, the Beverly Hills Hotel, Ritz Carlton, Pasadena, CA., Exxon Corporation, Irving TX, Nagaragawa, Ramada Hotel, Gifu Japan, State of Wyoming, Douglas, WY, The Sutter Club, Sacramento, CA, and the Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco. His works have been published in numerous media outlets and books including: Painting California Seascape and Beach Towns by Jean Stern and Molly Siple, Plein Air Magazine, “Catching the Light,” North Coast Journal, Cover Story, by George Ringwald, “Art From the Parks,” by Rachel Rugin Wolfe, North Light Books, “The Artist and The American Landscape,” by John Driscoll and Arnold Skolnick, First Glance Books, Landscapes of the West, Phippen Museum of Western Art, Prescott, AZ., The Artists Magazine and American Artist Magazine.


Biography from American Legacy Fine Arts

Upon seeing 19th-century French landscapes at the age of twenty-one, Jim McVicker had an awakening to art. The beauty and sensitivity saw in those works changed his he perception of the world. McVicker started studying art history, painted copies of French Impressionist landscapes, and enrolled in life drawing and painting classes at Chaffey Community College.

In 1975 he decided to become a full-time painter. He moved from Ontario, California, where he was raised, to Northern California, searching for and finding a quieter, more rural lifestyle. He met and worked with several highly-accomplished artists, painting landscapes on location daily, or painting in the studio, always working from the still-life setup or models. He learned from direct observation of nature, by looking at and studying notable art from the past, and working alongside more developed artists.

In 1984, McVicker met his wife and fellow artist, Terry. Today, the couple live in Loleta, California, a small rural town just south of Eureka, where McVicker continues to paint daily, following his passion for painting from life, trying to capture the light, atmosphere, space, and mysterious beauty all around us.

McVicker's awards include:

2018 Artist Choice Award Maui Plein Air Invitational

2017 1st place in the plein air category of the Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition as well as three honorable mentions in the plein air category and a finalist in the still life category
 
2017 Best Composition, Best West Coast Artist, Best New Artist to Easton Plein Air Festival, Easton Maryland

2016 and 2014 Best of Show at the Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational; 2015Gold Medal for Painting, California Art Club’s 104th Gold Medal Exhibition held at USC Fisher Museum of Art

2015 First Place, PleinAir Magazine Salon Competition.

Jim McVicker is a Signature Artist Member of the California Art Club.


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