Jim Yale’s multi-disciplinary visual work is a meditation on the random combinations of color, message, language, and form found in everyday life.
Yale’s influences in collage include Dadaists like Kurt Schwitters, abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell, pop art, and Joseph Cornell’s assemblages. Each piece is an exercise in gestalt theory, embracing principles of closure, proximity, figure/ground, continuation, similarity, symmetry, and order. Using found paper materials and industrial production techniques, he incorporates and manipulates found objects, ephemera, and packaging material, crafting unique, layered narratives. In every composition, pieces and parts interact and overlap, influencing one’s perception of discrete space.
Yale’s painting and drawing work pulls inspiration from Matisse, Cézanne, and the figurative art of the Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s.
Jim Yale received his BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently lives with his family and works in Deerfield, IL.
“Cassandra”
2023
Oil on canvas
37x25"
$750
“Meander, galerij bed”
2023
Oil on Masonite 41x31"
$2,500
(Limited edition giclée prints available)
Collage (untitled)
2020
Found objects and paper on paper
12x10"
$200
