left: installation, Conduit Gallery, 2010
center: installation, Conduit Gallery, 2010
right: Decimated Rock, 2009, spitbite on steel plate etching with chin colle, 15x10.5" edition 5

"The accumulation of straw cemented with plaster in Sullivan's sculpture constitutes a strongly worked, rich textural surface. The appeal of its palpable physicality is at once proximally tactile and distally visual. The seeming density of the mass is composed of a flickering of linear elements constellated into volume. There is a profound sense that any volumetric form, however abstract, references the figure insofar as volume entails a distinction of exteriority and interiority. Sullivan's works evoke more than the figure as abstract notion or conventional motif - they elicit the concrete lived experience of the body."

David Newman, 2000


Selected Exhibitions:
Michael Martin Galleries, San Fancisco, CA
The Meadows Museum, Southern
  Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung
Worlen, Passau, Germany
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Amerika Haus, Berlin
Galerie Muhlenbusch, Dusseldorf
Raw Space/ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stadt Museum, Erlangen, Germany
Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

www.jameswsullivan.com