Bay Area artist tries to put life together in ‘Particles’
Artist James Gouldthorpe attempts to piece together his life by producing and gathering more than 2,000 mixed-media paintings in “James Gouldthorpe’s Particles: A Painting in Ten Chapters.”
Over the course of his three-year stay as an Irvine Fellow at the Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center, the Bay Area artist found himself reflecting on life, having turned 50 and recently seeing off a son departing for college.
“I decided to call it ‘Particles’ because we are essentially just a collection of particles — trapped energy, clusters of atoms,” he says.
Project Space Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga.