James Knowles is the President, CEO and Artist-in-Residence of the Roger Smith Hotel.
Artist Journals
Isamu Noguchi Museum James Knowles takes a walking tour of the Isamu Noguchi Museum in Queens.
Stainless Steel Series A look at James Knowles' most recent work, a series of 110 stainless steel sculptures to be installed on the Roger Smith Hotel.
Architecture "In studying architecture the idea of form as architecture caught my fancy... so pure architecture would be sculpture."
A Difficult and Rocky Road "Do it or don't do it? And not doing it is like committing a sin. Doing it is painful, a difficult rocky road."
Artist Cajolings "I am cajoling myself to engage and to build and to create"
Philosophy "Great artists are philosophers not craftsman. Craft is easy. Vision is not. The work of high art is a carrier of philosophy."
Sand Molds Form "Creating things is the work of the inventive mind. My definition of art has more to do with invention than with the landscape or the portrait."
James Knowles at Yellowbird James Knowles displayed a large body of work at the Yellow Bird Gallery in Newburgh, NY (spring of 2006).
