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In 1975-76 Jim owned
Just Imagine Arts, a gallery on 6th Street where he showed local and Texas
artists. Jim continued studying art through workshops on photography and
silkscreen printing at Dougherty Cultural Arts Center. A practitioner of
martial arts since the early 1960s, Jim has taught tai chi with
Four Seasons Tai Chi the past 13 years.
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The earliest influence on Jim’s artistic vision was 1950s car design, both European and American. As a teen, he designed his own futuristic model cars. Along with classic automotive design, he draws from a variety of influences including the art work of Franz Kline, Paul Klee, Chilean artist Roberto Matta, and pop icon Tom Wesselmann, as well as Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.
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Inspired by his training as a sculptor, Jim has spent his artistic career exploring the ambiguity of three-dimensional objects in space and cultivating a practice of allowing the present moment and gestures of the brush to guide his work. |