James Eugene Albert, Digital Artist
Resume
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2002 - 2004
 Permanent Gallery Artist at
World Fine Art, Inc.		 New York, NY USA
1997- 2004
 Permant Gallery Artist at
ARTWorks Gallery 		 San Francisco, CA  USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1995 - 02
 World Fine Art Gallery New York, NY USA
1996
 "Eruptions" Agora Gallery  New York, NY USA
1995
 "Men At Work" ArtWorks Gallery San Francisco, CA USA
1995
 "New Voices, New Visions" Palo Alto, CA USA
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1995
 ."First runnerup to First Place"
Encyclopedia of Living Artists, 9th Edition		 . USA
2001
 Academic Associate
Verbano Art Institute		 Verbano Italy
1999
 Knightly Arts "Top Site" Award Sydney  Australia
JURIED SHOWS:
Year
 Name of Gallery / Museum / Institution City, State Country
1995 - 1996
 LaJolla Village Art Competition LaJolla,CA USA
1995
 "Out of the Internet", 
Sharon Arts Center		 Peterborough, NH USA
1996
 "The Best COntemporary Art Juried Collection" CD, Art COmmunications Intl. New York USA
EDUCATION:
1971 - 1985
 University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley . USA
STATEMENT:
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 Like most artists, this art represents a statement by me of my feeling toward the subject for any particular painting.  I always try to get an "Eye" or two into my paintings. I feel that since paintings should have souls, you (the viewer) need to communicate with that soul through its "Eyes". 
Some digital artists get wrapped up in the technology of huge gigabit images and all of the equipment necessary just to get them into the computer and then out onto paper.  That's not for me. That takes the creativity and spontaneity out of the process. Even though a computer is involved, I still feel the need to "paint". I need to have some immediacy of interaction between the image on the screen and me. 

Because I am a technologist, and have been working with computers all of my life, I feel that computers should be more than just calculating machines, or even multimedia Internet cruisers. Although I have designed many computer applications, and even networks of computer applications,  I usually try to keep the technology hidden. In my world, complete mastery of my tools is my ability to take a slightly souped-up  "ordinary " desk top computer and turn it into a virtual set of artist's palettes and tools that can create extraordinary art.