James McKissic

• Origin: Meigs County
• Active: Chattanooga (Hamilton County)
• Region: East
• Mediums: Fiber

James McKissic

My work is born of a desire to use color, texture and shape in a way that invites the viewer into the artwork. If you don’t want to physically touch my work, I feel like I haven’t been successful. My work allows me to explore on an organic, primal level my relationship to the environment and to others as an African-American, Southern man. I love searching out vintage black yarns, and other items to incorporate into my work. I create non-objective paintings in mixed media and weavings that evoke my rural, Meigs County, TN agricultural, African American ancestry and often celebrate personal exploration and inquiry. I am a Black artist who does not often work figuratively. I chose long ago to create for myself and create as much mojo in my work as my mind and spirit could handle.

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Crafting Blackness Exhibitions

Black Bodies Making Form

Lovingly

MTSU Black Bodies Making Form

Reclaiming

Tanasi