James Drake
James Drake's work explores both the human urge to communicate and the semiotic capacities of our words and gestures. The imagery of his prints, A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing and The Hands Say We Love You, was inspired by groups of women who stand on street corners outside an El Paso prison, using gestures and signs to communicate with their men inside the walls.
James Drake was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1946. He received his BFA in 1969 and MFA in 1970 from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. Drake recently moved to New York City from El Paso, Texas, where he lived and worked for over twenty years. In 1996, he collaborated with Landfall Press on Salon of Eternal Souls and Salon of A Thousand Souls, a pair of four-color lithographs depicting haunted interior spaces, void of human habitation. |
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Feast of Four Rivers
2016
5 panel Lithograph
117" x 168"
Edition 5
$25,000
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