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James Herman

  1. Something
  2. Termite Drawings
  3. Schmoo Store
  4. Even A Blind Man Knows When The Sun Is Shining
  5. Glass Island Studio 
  6. Dose Trump
  7. Earth Pizza




(b. Denver, CO., 1985) James is an artist working between sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Herman’s painted works include process-based, abstract plywood pieces, functioning alongside a critical homesteading practice. Literally and figuratively meditating on processes of repetitive labor, Herman offers a utopian formal and ecological perspective by foregrounding off-the-grid building methods, repurposed materials, and a simultaneously thoughtful and cheeky modernist referentiality. Across media, his works propagate intentional domestic practices through piecemeal, communal, revelation.
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7. Earth Pizza




Earth Pizza, 2017-
cob oven, firewood, dough 
dimensions variable

    An outcropping of Herman’s installation practice, Earth Pizza, reveals the underlying lightheartedness weaving through his work at large. The kiln-based pizza pop up, a monthly convening co-organized with Jack Rammuni, offers communally activated space as art in and of itself: hierarchies between art making and gardening, building, and upkeep decompose. Similar to the small patch of grass perched between wooden panels in the roof of Herman’s architectural sculpture Even a blind man knows when the sun is shining (yellow studio addition), something green grows in the eves of a hand-built shed and in the full bellies of strangers sharing pizza.







photos: Julia Sherman  
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