About
James is a painter, teacher and musician. Originally from Detroit, he grew up drawing and painting in his father’s commercial art studio. Pen and ink illustrations and color separations were often after school assignments, but when the chance was offered, he became a sculpture major under renowned European artist Morris Brose at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Throughout most of the seventies and into the eighties James painted and sold from his studio/gallery in Ann Arbor. In 1982 he moved to Boston and was represented in South Boston, Belmont and Back Bay. He moved to Cape Cod in 1990 where he created the James Wolf Gallery representing progressive artists from Cape Cod, Boston and NYC. In 1994, he founded Cotuit Center for the Arts, a multi-disciplined, non-profit focused on education, exhibition and performance. As Artistic Director, he composed scores, produced plays and concerts, created art education programs, curated all exhibits and played guitar many times on the main stage. James most recently exhibited his paintings at PAAM, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Tao Water Gallery, Duxbury Art Complex and for the past three years has been represented exclusively by Miller White Fine Arts. He paints and teaches privately in Barnstable Village’s historic Old Schoolhouse at the Chalkboard Studio.