James Bartolacci

James Bartolacci - Life Without Night
October 8 - 29
Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present

'Life Without Night'

an online solo exhibition by

James Bartolacci

launching virtually on

Thursday 8, 2020.
JAMES BARTOLACCI

B. 1988, Easton, PA

Lives and works in Queens, NY

James Bartolacci (b. 1988) received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2020 and has since exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Galerie Perrotin and Taymour Grahne Projects.

His first London solo will be held in 2021 at Taymour Grahne Projects, London.

James Bartolacci’s practice draws from personal experiences of queer nightlife in New York City. Bartolacci's work has been recently included in articles for Artsy, Artnet and The New York Times.
- 'Life without Night' is James Bartolacci’s latest body of work and responds to the closure of nightlife during the pandemic. Night club venues and spaces were part of the cultural fabric that...
- Believing nightlife is an art form in itself, Bartolacci sets out to honor the production that goes into each drawing. Often the emphasis is placed on the relationship between clubbing...
- Through a vibrant, yet selective assembly of tones; atmosphere, colour and mood is captured - despite revellers no longer being present in the setting. The more abstracted drawings in the...
Bartolacci has chosen the bedroom - an intimate setting to stage real-life, scenes - where friends rediscovered the joy of dressing up, the intensity of music and the animated chatter that preambles the unique anticipation of a night out.
Still lifes are realised as illuminated cups that are left behind when the party is over. The aftermath of a bodily presence, rather than the tangible presence of the body itself.
Works
- James Bartolacci, Untitled (Touch with Laser Lights), 2020
- James Bartolacci, It was a Blur (2), 2020
Please click here for James Bartolacci's CV