James Little

James Little is a Memphis, Tennessee native who now lives and works as a painter in New York City. He looks to patterns found in everyday life for imagery. Sources include grates and grills, manhole covers, and linoleum. The shapes covering the surfaces of his oil paintings are reminiscent of textile patterns, but he denies a conscious influence from the African Yoruba textiles they closely resemble. This untitled drawing is made in a manner very similar to his oil paintings, with layer upon layer built up, forming miniature craters and ridges. James Little says this about his non-representational art, "My interests in painting are a culmination of ideas and methods learned through experimentation, observation of nature and through the study of various art forms. I desire to attain form in art through the association and synthesis of variables."