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J A M E S S T R I C K L A N D ABOUT CONTACT RESUME FACEBOOK A B O U T Born at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in the fall of 1945. He moved to California in the mid-sixties to attend Episcopal Seminary and received his Doctor of Divinity from the California School of the Pacific. While studying for the ministry James spent the summers working as a skipper delivering boats to several Pacific Islands and Hong Kong. After receiving his Doctorate in Theology and becoming an ordained Minister, James ran a small parish church until the early 1970’s, at which time he left the ministry and returned to school to study architecture. The years that followed found James on several paths that included apprenticeships under Paolo Soleri, Charles Eames and a stay in Japan under the stern eye of Hiroshi Hasanawa studying temple architecture. With side roads into kendo, mountaineering and ballooning, and after living and teaching art in the South West (New Mexico and Arizona) he moved to the East Coast (New York City and Cape Cod) and finally settled in mid coast Maine (Belfast) where he now works in a studio barn built in 1888 with a quiet view of Penobscot Bay, spending his time painting (landscapes, still lifes and icons) and building large and small scale sculpture for municipal, corporate and private commissions. “In my work I would like to convey the sense of the voyage of ideals, the arrival of a dream world. To hover between the real and the spiritual worlds. To call up ‘stories’ from our collective past, still points around which our private memories revolve” FACEBOOK CONTACT ABOUT
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J A M E S S T R I C K L A N D ABOUT CONTACT RESUME FACEBOOK R E S U M E BORN: 1945, Fort Sill, Oklahoma EDUCATION: University of Oklahoma University of California at Davis California Divinity School of the Pacific, Doctor of Divinity Arizona State University, BFA in Sculpture, MFA in Jewelry APPRENTICESHIPS: Paolo Soleri, Scottsdale, Arizona Bob Winston, Phoenix, Arizona Charles Eames, La Jolla, California Ben Goo, Arizona State University Hiroshi Hasinawa, Kyoto, Japan AWARDS: 1974 Silver Guilds Show, Las Vegas Fine Art Show 1974 1975 1976 Southwestern State Arts and Crafts Show 1975 Cranbrook Air Show, California Arts and Crafts 1977 National Art and Endowment Grant for Architect-Artist in Residence 1978-1979 Artist in Residence for the State of Oklahoma James Strickland has participated in 107 invitational, national and one man shows. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (PARTIAL LIST): Museum of the Red River, Idabel Oklahoma, (2019) Sanford High School, Sanford Maine, (2019) Hilton Hotel Annapolis, (2018) Central Maine Community College Auburn Maine, (2017) Marriot Hotel Oklahoma City, (2017) Seaport Medical Center, Waldo County, Maine (2016) Mabee-Gerrer Museum of art, Shawnee, Oklahoma (2014) OSU Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma (2012) Ashland School System, Ashland, Maine 2013 University of Southern Maine (2012) Mount View School, Thorndike, Maine (2009) University of Southern Maine at Lewiston/Auburn (2009) Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (2008) Maki Residence, St. George, Maine (2008) Carver Hill Design Center (2006) Idol Residence, The Hampton’s, New York (2005) Waldo County School District 34, Maine (2004) William Ryan Gallery, Belfast, Maine (2004) Ryan Air, Newark New Jersey (2003) Jesuit Priory America House, New York, NY (2003) Kieran and Susan Duffy Foundation, Jupiter, Florida (2003) Waldo County General Hospital, Belfast, Maine (2002) Loyola University, Jesuit Priory (2001) Georgetown University, Jesuit Chapel (2000) National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped, NY, NY(1999) Faber Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona (1998) Peter Piper Market, Nantucket, MA (1998) R.R.Donnelley Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois (1994) Dos Flores Corporation, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1989) Market Place at the Grove, San Diego, CA (1988) Indiana Lumbermans New Corporation HQ (Revision 1986) Trammell-Crow Investment Company, Dallas, Texas (1985) Raintree Investment Company, Oklahoma City, OK (1985) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York (1984) New York Life, New York City, New York (1984) Baltimore Federal Savings and Loan, Baltimore, MD (1984) Hastie and Kirschner, Oklahoma City, OK (1984, 1987) Systematics Inc., Memphis, Tennessee (1984) Roche Bobois Headquarters, Milan, Italy (1983) First Federal Savings and Loan, Kansas City, Kansas (1982) Stephens Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas (1982) University of Oklahoma Museum of Fine Art, Norman, OK (1982) First National Bank and Trust, Decatur, Alabama (1981) Peoples Bank and Trust, Tupelo, Mississippi (1981) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (1981) Indiana Lumbermans Mutual Corporation Headquarters (1980-1981) National Bank of Carmi, Illinois (1981) Halliburton Services, Duncan, OK (1980) Spaulding and Sly, Kansas City, Kansas (1983) Spaulding and Sly Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK ( 1981) Spaulding and Sly Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK ( 1981) Oklahoma City Clinic, Oklahoma City, OK (1978) Frontier Savings and Loan Association, Ponca City, OK (1977) G.S.A., U.S. Government, A.P.Murrah Building, OKC (1976) City Center Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1976) The Yuma Art Center (1976) City of Phoenix Libraries (1975) The Phoenix Art Center (1975) FACULTIES SERVED ON: University of Southern Maine, Adjunct current National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped, New York City (2002) Fire House Art Center, Norman, OK (1983) Oklahoma Center for the Arts, Oklahoma, OK (1982) Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (1976) FACEBOOK CONTACT ABOUT
Perhaps the most exciting movement here in the beginning of the 21st century is the idea of “thinking green”, the simple evolution of living in synchronicity with our planet, her diverse life forms and abundant resources. While leading mankind back to our roots and connecting us more closely with all fellow inhabitants of this burgeoning yet fragile planet, “green thinking” also leads us to use new and exciting technologies to enhance previous paradigms into fresh and new examples of creativity. As an artist I have always valued and revered how art and its quest for beauty speaks to our innermost lives. The intriguing prospect of combining new green technologies and artistic endeavors into one energy producing object is now a reality and a personal quest. Sculptures that not only enrich our visual world but at the same time heat our buildings, light our parks and gardens and teach our children about sustainable energy resources have become more than just a dream. In silence these sculptural sentinels await the power of the sunrise. Collecting energy throughout the day and storing it in increasingly more efficient formats these helio-centric objects not only speak to our inner need for beauty but connect us closely with the life force of our amazing biosphere. Since the cave paintings of Lescaux, artists have interpreted the beauty that surrounds them. Standing on the broad shoulders of our remote ancestors “green” artists using tools, of which not even Leonardo could have dreamed, can take the next step and enter into a closer and even more harmonious relationship with the natural world from which we sprang. J A M E S S T R I C K L A N D ABOUT CONTACT RESUME FACEBOOK H E L I O C E N T R I C S C U L P T U R E FACEBOOK CONTACT ABOUT Belfast 2007 PROMETHEUS SERIES WITH SIMPLE COLUMN PLINTH PROMETHEUS SERIES WITH PROJECTION GLASS PLINTH ALDEBARAN STAR SERIES ON KINETIC PLINTH ORION WIND KINETIC KANAR WIND KINETIC KANAR BASE AND STORAGE SPHERES SKATE PARK FOR SOUTHERN JAPANESE CITY FOMALHAUT STAR SERIES WIND KINETIC CAPELLA STAR SERIES WIND KINETIC "KIMIKO" (Chrysanthemum ) WITH GLASS STORAGE SPHERES “WINDWARD PASSAGE” SUBMITTED BOARDS FOR LAGI LAND ART SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA August 2016
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J A M E S S T R I C K L A N D ABOUT CONTACT RESUME FACEBOOK FACEBOOK CONTACT ABOUT D E S I G N RECUMBENT TWO PERSON BIKE FABRICATED FROM LAMINATED BAMBOO TRUSS SYESTEM DRIVE SHAFT POWER TRAIN THREE WHEEL SUSPENSION TWO PERSON VACATION “TUK TUK” FOR BALI RESORT WITH SEATING AND FENDERS HELIOCENTRIC POWER CUBE IN A GIMBALED FREE SPINNING UNIT HARVESTING BOTH SOLAR (THIN FILM VOLTAICS) AND WIND ENERGY IN ONE KINETIC SCULPTURAL UNIT