Archive

Order of Content:
Sculpture
Video
2D Works
Writing & Doodles
Object Collection

Sculpture

I (Dont) Want To Remember
2023
Flocked steel, wood, paint, magnets
24"x 24"

Dont Fucking Touch
2023
Wetfelted book and handsewn text
8"x 11"

I Love This Color
2023
woven mylar and cellophane in expanding foam frame
58"x 62"

  "I Love This Color is a piece fabricated by the hands of James Negron. Weaving mylar and cellophane, James approached the color pink with the idea of reimagining the cultural meaning or symbolism behind the color pink. He is bringing his relationship with the color pink from childhood to now as an adult and redefining what that means to him. In the words of James, “I was thinking about reflecting on my love for the color pink and removing it from gendered connotations and associations. That it belongs to no one or any group of people. That it is just a color and that is enough.” Through the material and orientation of the piece James is thinking about reframing views around the color through fragmentation and distorted perception."

Written by Zion Monice Jones

The Mirror
2023
Woven mylar and cellophane in expanding foam frame
2'x 3'

It's Safer At Home
2023
Cardboard and various fabrics
2"x 2"x 3"

As Negron’s work builds off of one another, I Love This Color led him to create It’s Safer at Home. After considering how gender associations and roles have personally impacted his life and have been generally ingrained in folks' behaviors, he reflected on the discrimination he has faced as a result of the colonization of creating a gender binary. By constructing a home for his body with different fabrics contrasting in texture and opacities, many windows unable to be looked through, and an opening to reveal the scar across his chest, the artist aimed to create a safe space for his body that displays vulnerability while simultaneously shielding his eyes and ears to hateful and misinformed statements directed towards his physicality.

Time On My Hands
2022
Soft Sculpture with sound device
4'x 1'x 3'

Gravity
2021
Soft sculpture, plastic, pink tule, and personal collected objects
Varied dimensions

Video

Memory.
2023
1:02

Through exploring the capabilities of stop motion, Negron created Memory, a charcoal animation. Stop motion animation particularly interested the artist because of its quality of fragmentation which he correlated with his fragmented memory. Negron wanted to use this aspect to his advantage in creating more video work. In Memory, the viewer goes into the eyes of a figurative brain and throughout the video, images are slowly drawn and erased while text appears above the eyes communicating the difficulty of his ability to retrieve episodic memory. 

EAT UR FOOD.
2022
1:35

Remember.
2021
3:26

Remember is the first piece Negron made that focused on the subject of memory. At the beginning of the video, there is a room with pictures and objects that he has collected throughout his life, as the video progresses these objects start to slowly disappear each time it switches between the two rooms shown. At the end of the video, the room is empty of all the objects that represent his memories and he is sitting in the dark while his mother's voice narrates his suppressed thoughts. After making this work, Negron took an interest in making more time-based media which felt like a fitting medium to communicate concepts surrounding time and memory. 

2D Works

Window to Our Daylilies
2023
Acrylic on wax paper and hand sewn felt on foam board frame
13"x 15"

Child Of Love
2023
Screenprint on habotai silk nuno-felted with pink merino wool
4'x 1'

I Promise
2023
CMYK screenprint on canvas in second hand frame
14"x 18"

My Child
2023
3 Layer screenprint in second hand frame with crocheted background
20"x 26"

ILYIMY
2023
1 Layer screenprint on paper
8.5"x 11"

No One Wants to Talk A bout

 It
2020
Oil pastel on paper
4'x 7.5'

Writing & Doodles

I Wish I Knew How to Swim
2023
Wax covered yarn on paper

I Used To...
2022

I Love This Color
2023

eating like a person.
2022

How
2022