Bio

Jim Fuess
682 Plainfield Avenue, 
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 
(908) 322-5940
Web Site: www.jimfuessart.com
www.newartgroup.com
E-Mail: jimfuess@comcast.net
(908) 322-5940

Web Site: http://www.jimfuessart.com

E Mail: jimfuess@comcast.net

Greetings:

            I work with liquid acrylic paint on canvas.  Most of my work is abstract, but there are recognizable forms and faces in a number of the paintings.  I am striving for grace and fluidity, movement and balance.  I like color and believe that beauty can be an artistic goal.  The most recent work deals with negative space and the edges of the canvas.  The work is lyrical, energetic, colorful and sometimes spooky or humorous.

            The painting technique involves using squeeze bottles with different viscosities of liquid paint, two brands of paint, and a number of interchangeable nozzles of different apertures.

            Most of the work I have been doing for the past four years is small.  The work is easy and inexpensive to transport.

            Thank you for your consideration.  I would welcome your critique.

VITA

            Jim Fuess was on the Executive Board of Directors and Vice President for Visual Arts at the Watchung Arts Center from 1993 through 1999.  He is the Chairperson and Founder of the New Art Group (NAG).

 
Curating:

As of January 1999, Jim Fuess had curated or been responsible for 94 art shows at the Watchung Arts Center and 35 shows for the New Art Group.  He was the curator for art shows, in his hometown, at the Berkeley Heights Library.

            2004 Co Chair “7 Deadly Sins” Studio Montclair

2002 Curator for “Black and White Paintings” at the Arts Guild of Rahway.

            2001 & 2002 Curator for “Celebrating Excellence,” The Merck Union County Juried Art Show, at the Arts Guild of Rahway, for the Union County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.
Bibliography:

  • 2007    Interview   The Princeton Packet

  • 2007    Interview  International Essential Tremor Foundation

  • 2006    Interview  “The McMansion Show”

  • 2005 Interview    Clockworks the Goddard College Alumni Magazine. Color cover and interview

  • 2000 Interview The New York Times – “Despite a Disorder, a Creator with Many Hats”
    Review The Times (Trenton) – “New Art Group Comes Alive”
    Star Ledger “New Art Group Finds a Common Thread and Develops a Theme”

  • 1999 Interview Home News Tribune
    Review Cover Princeton Packet
    Review Courier News “Controlling Black & White”

  • 1998 Interview “An Artist Who Expresses that “Joie de Vivre”
    Interview Star Ledger “Watchung Center Art Director Resigns”
    Review Courier News “Exhibit Shares Impressions of Aging”
    Review Star Ledger “Aging Seen Through Artists’ Eyes”
    Review Daily Record “Schering Exhibit Carries a Message for Planet Earth”
    Review Star Ledger “Class Acts” Echo Sentinel –

  • 1997 Channel 36 TV– “The New Art Group”
    WTKR TV – “The Watchung Arts Center”
    Star Ledger – “Art Effects The Experimental Incubators that are NJ’s Visual Arts Centers”
    Independent Press “Business and the Arts Join to Inaugurate Series of Posters”

  • 1996 Channel 36 TV – “The Watchung Arts Center”
    Review Star Ledger “An Artful August: Three Shows Unveil Some Surprising Works”
    Review Suburban News “Between a Thought and a Thing is Theme of New Art Group Exhibit”

  • 1995 Interview Star Ledger “Saying When…Artist from Berkeley Heights Strives for Balance”
    Interview Echo-Sentinel “Arts Center Renews Lease with Borough”
    Review Courier News “Everhart Show Has Great Variety and Depth”
    Review: The New York Times “A Fringe Benefit for the Gallery’s Faithful”
    Review Star Ledger “Group Comes Out of the Woodwork to Heat Things Up in Watchung”

  • 1994 Review The Star Ledger “Does It Match the Sofa”
    Review The Journal “Too Many Artists Can’t Spoil the Painting”

  • 1993 Interview Star Ledger “Painter Places His Signature on Arts Center”
    Reviews Forbes Newspapers “Exhibition of Imagination”
    Review Star Ledger “Watchung Gallery Presents Show Designed by Committee”

  • 1992 Interview The Independent Press “A Summer’s Play Made Jim Fuess an Artist at 30”

  • 1990 Interview County Leader “James Fuess Became an Artist at Age 30”

Innumerable; quotes, interviews, statements, reviews and opinions to do with the shows at the Watchung Arts Center, The New Art Group, and personal shows.
Talks: 

  • 2002 "How to Start to Exhibit Your Art" and "The Internet as a Tool for Artists" At the Arts Guild of Rahway.

  • "How To Start to Exhibit Your Art" Twice a year at the Watchung Arts Center also for the Westfield Art Association, , and the Clark Art Association.

  • Dias: "Approaching Art Galleries" Union County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.

Helped create Twill Printing’s New Jersey Artists Series. Certificate of

Excellence from NJ Advertising Club and Art Directors Club of NJ.

Juror: 

  • 2000 Alternate juror "Celebrating Excellence" The Merck 2000 Union County Juried Art Show

  • 1997 The Metro Show, City Without Walls

Writing:

  • Art Calendar June 2001 "The New Art Group... Wanted: Artists to Hang Together"
Education:

  • B.A. English Goddard College

  • M.A. Comparative Religions Goddard College

  • Two years of PHD work in Comparative Literature at U. Mass Amherst

Jim Fuess has lived for two years each in New Zealand, Africa, and South America, and a total of seven years in Italy.

Selected Exhibitions and Reviews

2007   

Solo Show Erdman Art Gallery Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton NJ

(NAG) Boraus Properties, Summit, NJ

Phoebe A Journal of Literature and Arts Spring Edition 4 pages, images of black and white paintings.

Isotope:  A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing  One image of black and white painting

 

2006

  • Solo Show, Palmer Museum, Springfield, NJ

  • (NAG) Barron Arts Center Woodbridge, NJ

2005

  • (NAG) Ocean County Artist's Guild, Island Heights, NJ

  • (NAG) Palmer Museum, Palmer Museum, Springfield, NJ

2004

  • (NAG) Automatic Data Processing, Roseland, NJ

2003

  • (group) Eighth Floor Artists, New York City
  • Solo Show, Schering Plow, Kenilworth, NJ
  • NAG) NJN Television, Trenton, NJ

2002

  • Three Person Show,"Black & White Paintings and Drawings" Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ

  • (invitation) "A New Take on Art for the Art's Sake" City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

  • (NAG) Automatic Data Processing, Roseland, NJ

  • (NAG) Borus Properties, Summit, NJ

  • (NAG) Schering Plow, Kenilworth, NJ

2001

  • (NAG) "Union County" Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway,NJ

2000 {Juried and Group Shows}

  • Solo Show, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2 Months - 60 pieces)

  • Two Person Show, Brion Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey

  • (NAG)" It’s Alive", Brion Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey

  • (NAG)" The Toy Show", Artists For Art, Scranton, Pennsylvania

1999 

  • Solo Show, "Beat The Winter Blues" Brion Gallery, Lambertville, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J. "Black & White"

  • (NAG)"Anthropomorphic" - Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, New Jersey

  • (NAG)"The Human Presence" - Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, New Jersey

1998 

  • Six Person Show, Polo Gallery, Edgewater, N.J.

  • (group)Two shows. Brion Gallery, Lambertville, N.J.

  • (juried) “Imaging Aging” Watchung Arts Center, Watchung (NAG) (NAG) “Environs” Two consecutive shows (4 months) at Schering-Plough, Madison, NJ

  • (NAG) "Environs" Two Consecutive shows (4 months) at Schering Plow, Madison, N.J. Review: Daily Record – "Schering Exhibit Carries a Message For Planet Earth"

  • (NAG) Montgomery Cultural Center, Princeton, N.J.

  • (NAG) "Environs" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J.

  • (NAG) Hawthorne Library, Hawthorne, N.J.

  • (invitation) "For The Sake of Beauty", City Without Walls, Newark, N.J.

1997 

  • Solo Show, Village Gallery, Hamlin, Pennsylvania

  • Three Person Show, Simon Gallery, Morristown, N.J.

  • Three Person Show, Tomasulo Art Gallery, Union County College, N.J.

  • (Solo-one week) Summerfun Theater, Little Falls, N.J.

  • (NAG) Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.

  • (NAG) "Opposites" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J.

  • (invitation) "Web" City Without Walls, Newark, N.J.

  • (juried) "Things That Go Bump in the Night", Watchung Arts Center

1996 

  • Solo Show, Vox Gallery, Summit, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Les Malamut Gallery, Union, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Corporate Headquarters, Automatic Data Processing, Roseland

  • Solo Show, Presbyterian Church, Franklin Lakes, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Union Camp Corporation, Wayne, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, N.J.

  • Solo Show, American Cyanamid Corporate Headquarters, Princeton, N.J.

  • Three Person Show, Somerset County Building

  • (gallery) Summer Show, Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

  • (gallery) Holiday Show, Artists Showcase, Chester, NJ

  • (gallery) Holiday Show Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, N.J.

  • (NAG) Watchung Arts Center “Between a Thought and a Thing”

  • (NAG) Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, N.J.

  • (NAG) New Jersey Network, Trenton, N.J.

  • (group) First Unitarian Society, Plainfield, N.J.

  • (NAG) ADP Corporate Headquarters, Roseland, N.J.

  • (juried) Watchung Arts Center, "The End of the Millennium"

1995 

  • Solo Show, Ansu Gallery, Stirling, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, N.J. Review: Courier News- "Everhart Show Has Great Variety and Depth"

  • Solo Show, First Unitarian Society, Plainfield, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Monmouth County Library, Manalapan, N.J.

  • (NAG) "Red-Hot-Blue" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J. Reviews:

  • The New York Times – "A Fringe Benefit For The Gallery’s Faithful"

  • Star Ledger – "Group Comes Out Of The Woodwork To Heat Things Up in Watchung"

  • (gallery) Marino Galleries, Millburn, N.J.

  • (gallery) Summer Show, Robin Hutchins Gallery Maplewood, N.J.

  • (gallery) Artists Showcase, Chester, N.J.

  • (NAG) "Innocence and Experience" Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, N.J.

  • (NAG) Barron Art Center, Woodbridge, N.J.

  • (juried) "Summerfest V", Art Center of Northern N.J. New Milford

  • (juried) "Joy" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J.

  • (juried) "Black & White", Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J.

1994 

  • Solo Show, The Harvey Mansion, New Bern, North Carolina

  • Solo Show, Common Ground Cafe, Summit, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Automatic Data Processing Corporate Headquarters, Roseland

  • (NAG) "But Will It Match the Couch", Watchung Arts Center Reviews:

  • (representation) Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, N.J.

  • (gallery) Hartnett Art Gallery, Rahway, N.J.

  • (gallery) Summer Show, Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, N.J.

  • (NAG) American Cyanamid, Princeton, N.J.

  • (group) Union County Arts Center, Rahway, N.J.

  • (NAG) Millburn Library, Millburn, N.J.

  • (NAG) ADP Corporate Headquarters, Roseland, N.J.

  • (NAG) Palmer Museum, Springfield, N.J.

  • (group) Trenton City Museum, Trenton, N.J.

  • (group) Somerset County Building, Somerset, N.J.

  • (juried) "Personality", Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, N.J.

1993 

  • Solo Show, Pancho & Lefty, New York City

  • Solo Show, Eastern Branch Monmouth County Library

  • Solo Show, Burgdorff Realtors, Corporate Headquarters, Murray Hill, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Wall Library, Wall, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Madison Library, Madison, N.J.

  • Solo Show, Corporate Headquarters, Automatic Data Processing, Roseland

  • (NAG) "Daydreams and Nightmares" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J. Reviews: Forbes Newspapers – "Exhibition of Imagination"

  • (gallery) Gallery 39, Flemington, N.J.

  • (gallery) Hartnett Art Gallery, Rahway, N.J.

  • (group) Union County Arts Center, Rahway, N.J.

  • (NAG) Madison Library, Madison, N.J.

  • (NAG) Burgdorff Realtors, Corporate Headquarters, Murray Hill, N.J.

  • (NAG) Chatham Library, Chatham, N.J.

  • (juried) Trenton City Museum, Trenton, N.J.

  • (juried) "7 Deadly Sins", Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J.

  • (juried) "12 1/2 X 12 ½" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, N.J.

  • (juried) Carrier Foundation, Belle Mead, N.J.

  • (juried) Tawa at Ellarslie, "Spiritual Matters", Trenton, N.J.

1992 

  • Solo Shows at: The Watchung Arts Center, Chatham Library, Millburn Library, Montclair Community Hospital.

1990 

  • Solo Shows at: Perfect Tommy’s (NYC) Les Malamut Gallery, Roseland Library, Group Show St. Lifer Gallery.

1989 

  • Solo Show at the Trapp Gallery, Three Person Show St Lifer Gallery.

1980 

  • Solo Show at the Pacific Grove Art Center (California)

1979 

  • Solo Show at the Cherry Foundation (California)

Works also displayed at: d. Christian Gallery, Signatures Gallery, Tweed Gallery, St Johns Religious Art Show, Summit Art Center, Corporate Art Consultants, Nabisco Corporate Headquarters, Merck Corporate Headquarters, Nathan’s Gallery, City Without Walls, White Gallery, Straley’s Gallery, Magenta Gallery and in numerous other shows.