Known for his works on paper and his landscapes of the Big Bend region, James Malone is a consummate draftsman who has worked in a variety of media and techniques over a career spanning 35 years. To create his images he uses graphite, watercolor, pen and charcoal, collage, opaque acrylic paint, wax, and thread, and even burns lines into paper using a magnifying glass. He also works with composite images of photographs. Celestial and terrestrial maps figure in many of his compositions.
Malone has participated in group and solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and at other museums and galleries throughout Texas. Most recently, his work was featured at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in the solo exhibition "Cutting for Sign," in the group exhibition of Big Bend landscapes "Despoblado Update," curated by Daniel Blagg, and in "James Malone: New Ideas."
Malone works intuitively in his drawings, and then looks back to find a thread of meaning, a link between imagery or ways of depicting that reveals a pattern. In this method, the work flows out of the artist instead of being forced into an analytical frame of reference.
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JAMES MALONE, American (b. 1943)
BACKGROUND
Born 1943 in Savannah, New York
BA, State University of New York, Oswego 1968
Graduate Study, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth 1968-70
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Gold Rush, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX
2016 Scene/Not Scene, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX
2015 El Paseo, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX
2013 7 Card Draw, Laura Moore Gallery, McKinney, TX
2011 Field Notes from Another Brave, Laura Moore Gallery, McKinney, TX
2010 Drawing Under the Influence, Laura Moore Gallery, McKinney, TX
2010 Jim Malone, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX
2009 James Malone: Gritty Details, Laura Moore Fine Art Studios, McKinney, TX
2008 Lithos, Fort Worth Community Arts Center [December 12–29]
2006 "Cutting for Sign," Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2006 "Jim Malone: New Ideas," Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2002 "String Theory," Four Walls Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2002 About Landscape, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, curator: Christine Bisetto, Dallas, TX
2001 "The Artist's Eye" Gallery Talk, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
2001 Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, New Mexico (three-person show)
1996 Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
1994 Artist in residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
1982 Jan Weiner Gallery, Topeka, KS
1981 Jan Weiner Gallery, Topeka, KS
1981 Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1978 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
1973 Austin College, Sherman, TX
1971 Austin College, Sherman, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Heavenly View, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX
2015 The Texas Aesthetic IX, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TX
2014 Paper: Janet Chaffee, Jim Malone, Kate Rivers, Artspace111, Fort Worth
2013 Like, Artspace111, Fort Worth
2012 Sky Blue Sky, Artspace111, Fort Worth
2011 Big Bend Journey, Artspace111, Fort Worth
2010 2010 Hunting Art Prize exhibition, Houston
2010 Selections 2010: Fort Worth Art Dealers Association, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2010 Best of the FWCAC Biennial 2010, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2009 Trinity Perspectives: Views of an Urban River, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2009 Paintings, Prints, and Presents, Artspace 111, Fort Worth
2009 American Landscape: Urban/Rural, Artspace 111, Fort Worth
2009 Preservation Is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2009 Juried TAC Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2009 9 x 12 Works on Paper Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2008 9 x 12 Works on Paper Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2008 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2008 Geomorph, Centraltrak, Dallas
2008 WORTHwhile, Artspace 111, Fort Worth
2008 Biennial Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2008 Making Lines: Works by Jim Malone, Tarrant County College, Arlington
2007 Preservation Is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2006 First Annual Show, Texas Artists’ Coalition, curated by Dr. Frances Colpitt
2006 25th Anniversary Show, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
2006 Despoblado Update, curated by Daniel Blagg, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2004 First Annual Farewell Tour, with Joan Zalenski, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2004 Spring exhibition, presented by Merrill Lynch-The Benson Group, Artspace 111, Fort Worth
2003 First Annual Curated Show, 18 artists, selected by Artist Exhibition Advisory Panel, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2003 Despoblado: The Uninhabited Land, Four Walls Gallery, Fort Worth
2002 You Are Here, installation with Janet Tyson, Arlington Museum of Art
2002 Summer Vacation, Fort Worth Public Library, Central Library, Fort Worth
2000 Drawn, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
1998 Scratch, a drawing show, Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth
1998 Visions, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
1997 Serial Artists, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
1995 Images of Nature, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio
1995 Landscapes, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
1994 Images of Nature, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio
1993 Reunion: Young Texas Artists, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo
1983 National Office Institute of Business Designers, Jan Weiner Gallery, Topeka, Kansas
1982 Mural at World Trade Center, Dallas, with Dennis Blagg
1982 Hearts and Flowers, The Art Center, Waco
1981 Collection ’81, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1981 The Road Show, Houston
1981 Three large murals with Dennis Blagg on 3 sides of Brumbaugh’s furniture warehouse, North main and NE 28th St; designed by Malone and Blagg
1981 Tyler Museum of Art Anniversary Show, Tyler
1980 Response, Tyler Museum of Art
1980 Three Photographers, Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas
1979 Fire, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1979 Made in Texas, University of Texas, Austin
1977 Young Artists Series, Amarillo Art Center
1976 Extra Landscapes, Tyler Museum of Art
1975 Corsicana Panorama, collaboration with Ed Blackburn and Vernon Fisher at Corsicana Community Theater; narrative, camera obscura, and sound with large drawings and objects.
1975 Chandelier, collaboration with Ed Blackburn and Vernon Fisher at Delahunty Gallery, Dallas; large drawing, camera obscura, sound recording of a story by Fisher, and objects
1975 20th Exhibition of Southwestern Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art
1972 Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, New York
1971 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1970 National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art