Artist’s Statement

Jim paints in oils on canvas, working from collaged screen grabs of cityscapes and suburban landscapes. His practice explores the dissonance between direct experience and mediated perception—how, in our screen-saturated culture, beauty often goes unrecognized unless filtered through a digital interface.

Using the visual structure of the computer window—its tabs, overlays, and layered frames— he incorporates the aesthetics of the screen into the formal language of painting. These compositional devices act as both barriers and lenses, suggesting that our understanding of place is increasingly fractured and hyper-mediated. The screen is not just a tool; it has become a condition of seeing.

Rooted in the traditions of modern painting, his work focuses on the evolving relationship between technology and representation. 

How contemporary life blurs and fragments our vision—how what we see is always already framed by digital mediation.

Through this process, Jim is not only documenting landscapes,

but interrogating the terms by which we recognize them as landscapes at all.

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Jim lives and works in New York City.

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Contact  jennewein@mac.com