JIM WINTERS - Reduction Screen Prints & Paintings
Selected work 2022-2025
About me
Thanks for visiting. I am an artist living in Santa Cruz, California. I've worked as an illustrator, a portraitist, a house painter, a muralist and a decorative painter. I have a BFA from Tyler School of Art (1988).
I'm very proud to have work in the collections of the SFMOMA and the John Waters archives at Wesleyan University.
The SFMOMA acquired a limited edition box (30) of small works curated by Rick Jacobsen who ran the Kiki Gallery in San Francisco from 1993-1995. KIKIBOX, as it was entitled, was created to celebrate the gallery's first year anniversary. My contribution was a vinyl screen printed sticker. Kiki Gallery is also where I had my first solo show in San Francisco.
After interviewing John Waters for Bookshop Santa Cruz in May of 2015, I sent a gift of some fan art that I had made - 3 screen print portrait film stills of his leading ladies. These pieces were included his recent retrospective at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and are now housed in his permanent archives.
I have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years and make paintings and prints depicting the cityscapes and shoreline scenes found here; my surroundings. In my early career, most of my work was about the fear of AIDS. I screenprinted art stickers that I put up all over San Francisco after I moved there with my partner in 1992. I then got interested in portraiture and made screen prints and drawings of people I knew and were inspired by. Subsequent inspiration ranged from film stills to vintage beefcake photography to antique medical imagery to ephemera and wallpaper patterns - anything that caught my eye that seemed strange and beautiful.
Currently, the temporary nature of life has become my greatest interest. Vanitas still lifes and garden scenes are favorite themes, and I still love portraiture. Come back again to see new stuff!
My work is available at the Artisans Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. I gladly accept commissions, please feel free to reach out.
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