Jim Drain, Colorful Mixed Media Collage Painting Miami Artist Jim Drain Abstract Flowers

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Jim Drain (American, 1975)
Thorn News
2014
Mixed media (staples, ink and paint) on paper.
Hand signed, titled and dated … Read more Jim Drain (American, 1975)
Thorn News
2014
Mixed media (staples, ink and paint) on paper.
Hand signed, titled and dated verso
Dimensions: 19 X 24 inches

The composition features a colorful abstract arrangement of layered geometric assemblage of flora and fauna forms, painterly gestures, and collaged flower and butterfly like shapes.
Jim Drain is known for his vibrant, innovative works exploring pattern, color relationships, and playful architectural references.

Jim Drain (born 1975) is an American mixed media artist. Drain often makes work collaboratively, first within the collective, Forcefield (1996–2002)
and also with artists Elyse Allen, Ara Peterson, and Ben Russell, respectively.

Drain was born in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1998 with a B.F.A. degree in sculpture.
Following school, Drain introduced his love for discarded materials to a new skill—knitting—and is now best known for his stuffed and sewn textile sculptures that incorporate fabric scraps with machine knit-patterns. In general, Drain’s works are a melange of many parts; fun-house mirrors, plastic easter eggs, found items, and printed ephemera bearing referential imagery.
He is a former member of Forcefield, (Artists included: Brian Chippendale, Brian Gibson, Brian Ralph, Carly Ptak, Hisham Bharoocha, Jim Drain, Jungil Hong, Erin Rosenthal, Leif Goldberg, Mat Brinkman, Peter Fuller, Peter Edwards, Pippi Zornoza, Raphael Lyon, Xander Marro.)
who were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. His solo exhibitions I Wish I Had a Beak (2005) and I Would Gnaw On My Hand (2007) were presented at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York.
He was the 2005 recipient of the Bâloise Prize.
In vigorously colorful mixed-media works, Miami-based artist Jim Drain uses saturated psychedelic hues and patterns in a combination of formal exploration, art history, and popular culture.
Drain has held solo exhibitions at venues including the University of Florida, Locust Projects in Miami, and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. He has also participated in prominent group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Depart Foundation, Rome; and the 7th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon. His works are part of several esteemed permanent collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, MOCA Los Angeles, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, the RISD Museum in Providence, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2005, Drain was awarded the Baloise Prize, and in 2015, his public art projects with Bhakti Baxter were recognized by Americans for the Arts as among the “best public art projects in the nation.” He is currently represented by Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, and Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami. See less