BIO

Jim Block grew up in New Orleans.  He studied figurative drawing and painting under Mike Willmon in his home city and then received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute where he majored in sculpture and worked with Dale Eldred, Jim Leedy and Yoshiko Soto.

Block’s first show was at the Bienville Gallery in New Orleans. He has also shown at the Ostriker Gallery and the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, Leedy-Volker Gallery in Kanas City, Missouri; his work has been shown in Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, Kansas, and New York.

Block has said of his own work:

“I make use of form and shape, light and shadow in constructing mixed media pieces which reflect recurring memories and cultural and artistic ideas influenced by geometry and mechanical structures. Reflections and refractions of light from the materials complement the piece and invite the viewer to multiply the themes and memories from his own experience and imagination. I continue creating three dimensional collages based upon my hometown culture, New Orleans.”

Presently, he is working on paintings which deal with geometrical form, sculptures incorporating electricity, collages with mechanical subject matter, and three-dimensional, surrealistic mixed media collages.