# @project_backboard on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-08-05T14:46:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Project Backboard (@project_backboard) — https://gondola.cc/project_backboard

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“I would go with my father to construction sites. We used to mix mortar and cement. So I kind of got a feel for making stuff and mixing stuff and hard work, rigorous kind of work,” he says. “[My mother] used to come up with these different recipes and these different ways of making cakes and pies and cooking stuff and making it better and better and that kind of thing — and having fun doing it.”

Artist James Little (jameslittleart)speaking to Abigail Morici for Memphis Magazine, June 20, 2022, on the occasion of his 2022 exhibition, "James Little: Homecoming" at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN.

📷 Thomas Barratt, via https://kavigupta.com

A graduate of Hamilton HS, and the Memphis Academy of Art, "James Little is a master in the field of contemporary American abstract painting. In an age that frequently trades durability and patience for ephemerality and instant gratification, Little might be seen as an outlier. A careful, precise, disciplined perfectionist who emphasizes personal improvement over outside recognition, Little offers an alternative definition of influencer to a culture obsessed with quick returns and fame for fame's sake.
 
Little’s distinctive visual position is based on a rigorous, life long academic study of color theory, pictorial design, and painting techniques. Rooted in simplicity, his work centers geometric shapes, patterns and emotive color relationships."

https://kavigupta.com/artists/96-james-little/

#jameslittle #memphis #fivestargives #fivestarbasketball #mediaguide🏀🎨

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