James Mathison's anatomically detailed sculptures depicting men or individual body parts of them radiate a poignant silence. His sculptures are almost hyperreal, distinguished by anatomical precision. Mathison's work allows us to view people as a map, a cartography, a territory of their emotional world.

The isolation of the bronze casts is reinforced by lines of text by the poet Rafael Cadenas. The lines that run through some of the sculptures like scars refer to the vulnerability of full-body sculptures that appear to be archaic. The artist refers to the political situation in his home country Venezuela, which continues to develop into an authoritarian dictatorship.

Born 1966 in Caracas, Venezuela.
Lives and works in Madrid, Spain
Studies at St. Martin's Institute of Arts, London, England

Exhibitions (selection):

2013               
Homo mensura, Acaso Gallery, Miami

2010  
Palm Beach Art Fair, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

2009               
Miguel Otero Silva Biennial, Ascaso Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela

2008               
Recent Work, Moka Gallery, Chicago, IL
Latin American Art, DGriss Gallery, Panama
Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas

2007               
Textures, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas

31: Thirty-one artists. Thirty-one works., Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston

2006               
Recent Work, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris

2005               
Museo Francisco Narvaez Porlamar, Venezuela

2004               
Art Miami, Spativm Gallery, Miami
Start, Strasbourg Art Fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra Strasbourg, France
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida

2003               
Latin American Art, Spativm Gallery, Caracas
Salon grands et jeunes d'aujoud'hui, Espace d'auteuil, Paris
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida
Start, Strasbourg Art fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Strsbourg, France

2001  
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Hombre Fragmento, Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Art Miami, Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Miami

1998  
Homo Sentimentalis, Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas