James Prosek

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James Prosek has been called “the Audubon of the fishing world” by The New York Times, and “the best artist of this era” by the literary critic Harold Bloom. Prosek has traveled the globe in pursuit of his subject matter, has published over a dozen books and exhibited his art globally from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Philadelphia Museum to the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

“Prosek’s work is about nature’s incessant creativity, pushing and pulling always to make something new. We can never understand nature’s aesthetics, but Prosek is always thinking about it,” wrote Briant T. Allen, National Review’s art critic.

Some of his imagery derives from the documentary traditions of 18th and 19th century explorer/naturalist/artists like Linnaeus, Maria Sibylla Merian, Darwin and Audubon who attempted to impose order on the bewildering chaos of nature.

Prosek has been an artist-in-residence at several institutions, including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. His work is in numerous public collections including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Yale University Art Gallery.