James Westwater (b. 1962, Salvador, Brazil)
works primarily in painting and sculpture. He studied in the UK at what are now Suffolk New College and Manchester Metropolitan
University. He graduated in 1984 and later studied at the Santa Fe Art Institute with Komar and Melamid, Peter Schjeldahl,
Pat Steir, and Richard Tuttle.
Westwater's work explores the liminal and the ineffable through
the organization of images and objects, modular environments,
and the use of a Hard-edge geometric shape that relates to heraldry and certain Shiva linga Tantric paintings that access the Hindu concept of the "egg-shaped cosmos" or
"golden womb."
He lives and works in New York City and Beacon, NY.
