Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of the extraordinary works of James Castle.

James Castle (1900 – 1977) devoted his quiet life to making small art objects, drawings and books painted, drawn and constructed from used materials found in his rural homestead near Boise, Idaho. Born deaf, Castle never learned signing or lip reading and instead taught himself a rigorous personal creative language using discarded milk cartons, matchboxes, chimney soot, his own saliva and colors squeezed from wet tissue paper. In an hermetic environment with limited communication with relatives who cared for him, Castle constructed arresting images and objects based on his observed surroundings: interiors, people, animals, and farm landscape.  Some works are composed from words and images seen

in print which carried a special fascination for the artist.

During Castle’s lifetime, his work became known to the Boise Art Museum where it has been shown and collected.  Since his death in 1977, Castle’s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums. His unique objects are represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New York Public Library, the Museum of American Folk Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Henry Art Gallery, the High Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The exhibition’s opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 8th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.