| Jim Fuess was on the
Executive Board of Directors and Vice President for Visual Arts at the Watchung
Arts Center from 1993 through 1999. He is the Chairperson and Founder of
the New Art Group (NAG).
Curating:
As of January 1999,
Jim Fuess had curated or been responsible for 94 art shows at the Watchung
Arts Center and 31 shows for the New Art Group. He was the curator for
art shows, in his hometown, at the Berkeley Heights Library.
- 2004 Co Chair
"7 Deadly Sins" Studio Montclair
- 2002 Curator for
"Black and White Paintings" at the Arts Guild of Rahway.
- 2001 & 2002
Curator for "Celebrating Excellence," The Merck Union County
Juried Art Show, at the Arts Guild of Rahway, for the Union County Division
of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.
Bibliography:
2005 Clockworks
the Goddard College Alumni Magazine. Color cover and interview
2000 The
New York Times - "Despite a Disorder, a Creator with Many Hats"
1997 Channel 36 - "The New Art Group"
1997 WTKR TV - "The Watchung Arts Center"
1996 Channel 36 - "The Watchung Arts Center"
1995 Star Ledger - "Saying When…Artist from Berkeley Heights
Strives for Balance"
1993 Star Ledger - "Painter Places His Signature on Arts Center"
1992 The Independent Press - "A Summer's Play Made Jim Fuess an
Artist at 30"
1990 County Leader - "James Fuess Became an Artist at Age 30"
Innumerable quotes,
interviews, statements, reviews and opinions to do with the shows at the
Watchung Arts Center, The New Art Group and personal shows.
Talks: 2002
"How to Start
to Exhibit Your Art" and "The Internet as a Tool for Artists"
At the Arts Guild of Rahway.
"How to Start
to Exhibit Your Art" twice a year at the Watchung Arts Center also
for the Westfield Art Association and the Clark Art Association.
Dias
"Approaching
Art Galleries" Union County Division of Cultural & Heritage
Affairs.
Helped create Twill
Printing's New Jersey Artists Series. Certificate of Excellence from NJ
Advertising Club and Art Directors Club of NJ.
Juror:
- 2000 Alternate
juror "Celebrating Excellence" The Merck 2000 Union County
Juried Art Show
- 1997 The Metro
Show, City Without Walls
Writing:
Art Calendar June
2001 "The New Art Group…Wanted: Artists to Hang Together"
Education:
B.A. English Goddard College
M.A. Comparative Religions Goddard College
Two years of PhD work in Comparative Literature at U. Mass Amherst
Jim Fuess has lived
for two years each in New Zealand, Africa, and South America, and a total
of seven years in Italy.
Selected Exhibitions:
2005
- Solo Show, Palmer
Museum, Springfield NJ
2004
- (NAG) Automatic
Data Processing, Roseland, NJ
2003
- (group) Eighth
Floor Artists, New York City
- Solo Show, Schering
Plough, Kenilworth, NJ
- (NAG) NJN Television,
Trenton, NJ 2 shows
2002
- Three Person Show,
"Black & White Paintings and Drawings" Arts Guild of
Rahway, Rahway, NJ
- (invitation) "A
New Take on Art for Art's Sake" City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
- (NAG) Automatic
Data Processing, Roseland,NJ
- (NAG) Borus Properties,
Summit,NJ
- (NAG) Schering
Plough, Kenilworth, NJ
2001
- (NAG) "Union
County" Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
2000
- Solo Show, Gallery
Siano, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 2 months - 60 pieces)
- Two person Show,
Brion Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
- (NAG) "It's
Alive" Brion Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
Review: The
Times (Trenton) - "New Art Group Comes Alive"
- (NAG) "The
Toy Show" Artists for Art, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Other Press:
The New York Times - "Despite a Disorder, a Creator with Many Hats"
Star Ledger
- "New Art Group Finds a Common Thread and Develops a Theme"
1999
- Solo Show, "Beat
the Winter Blues" Brion Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
Press: Home
News Tribune, Cover, Review: Princeton Packet
- Solo Show, Watchung
Arts Center, Watchung, New Jersey "Black & White"
Review: Courier
News "Controlling Black & White"
- (NAG) "Anthropomorphic"
- Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
- (NAG) "The
Human Presence" - Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
1998 Juried
and Group Shows
- Six Person Show,
Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
- (group) Two shows,
Brion Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
- (juried) "Imaging
Aging" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ Reviews: Courier News
"Exhibit Shares Impressions of Aging" Star Ledger - "Aging
Seen Through Artists' Eyes"
- (NAG) "Environs"
Two consecutive shows (4 months) at Schering-Plough, Madison, NJ
Review: Daily
Record - "Schering Exhibit Carries a Message for Planet Earth"
- (NAG) Montgomery
Cultural Center, Princeton, NJ
- (NAG) "Environs"
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
- (NAG) Hawthorne
Library, Hawthorne, NJ
- (invitation) "For
the Sake of Beauty" City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Other Press: Star Ledger - "Class Acts" Echo Sentinel - "An
Artist Who Expresses that "Joie de Vivre"
Star Ledger - "Watchung Center Art Director Resigns"
1997
- Solo Show, Village
Gallery, Hamlin, Pennsylvania
- Three Person Show,
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
- Three Person Show,
Tomasulo Art Gallery, Union County College, NJ
- (Solo - one week)
Summerfun Theater, Little Falls, NJ
- (NAG) Johnson
& Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
- (NAG) "Opposites"
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
- (invitation) "Web"
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
- (juried) "Things
That Go Bump in the Night" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Other Press: Star Ledger - "Art Effects The Experimental Incubators
that are NJ's Visual Arts Centers
Independent Press - "Business and the Arts Join to Inaugurate Series
of Posters"
WTKR TV - "The Watchung Arts Center"
Channel 36 - "The New Art Group"
1996
- Solo Show, Vox
Gallery, Summit, NJ
- Solo Show, Les
Malamut Gallery, Union, NJ
- Solo Show, Corporate
Headquarters, Automatic Data Processing, Roseland, NJ
- Solo Show, Presbyterian
Church, Franklin Lakes, NJ
- Solo Show, Union
Camp Corporation, Wayne, NJ
- Solo Show, Nassau
Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ
- Solo Show, American
Cyanamid Corporate Headquarters, Princeton, NJ
- (NAG) Watchung
Arts Center "Between a Thought and a Thing" Reviews: Star
Ledger - "An Artful August: Three Shows Unveil Some Surprising
Works" Suburban News - "Between a Thought and a Thing is Theme
of New Art Group Exhibit"
- Three Person Show,
Somerset County Building
- (gallery) Summer
Show, Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
- (gallery) Holiday
Show, Artists Showcase, Chester, NJ
- (gallery) Holiday
Show, Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ
- (NAG) Williams
Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ
- (NAG) New Jersey
Network, Trenton, NJ
- (group) First
Unitarian Society, Plainfield, NJ
- (NAG) ADP Corporate
Headquarters, Roseland, NJ
- (juried) Watchung
Arts Center, "The End of the Millennium"
Other Press: Channel 36 "The Watchung Arts Center"
1995
- Solo Show, Ansu
Gallery, Stirling, NJ
- Solo Show, Everhart
Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ Review: Courier News - "Everhart Show
Has Great Variety and Depth"
- Solo Show, First
Unitarian Society, Plainfield, NJ
- Solo Show, Monmouth
County Library, Manalapan, NJ
- (NAG) "Red-Hot-Blue"
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ Reviews: The New York Times - "A
Fringe Benefit for the Gallery's Faithful"
Star Ledger - "Group Comes Out of the Woodwork to Heat Things Up
in Watchung"
- (gallery) Marino
Galleries, Millburn, NJ
- (gallery) Summer
Show, Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
- (gallery) Artists
Showcase, Chester, NJ
- (NAG) "Innocence
and Experience" Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
- (NAG) Barron Art
Center, Woodbridge, NJ
- (juried) "Summerfest
V" Art Center of Northern NJ, Milford, NJ
- (juried) "Joy"
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
- (juried) "Black
& White" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Other Press: Star Ledger - "Saying When…Abstract Artist from
Berkeley Heights Strives for Balance"
Echo-Sentinel "Arts Center Renews Lease with Borough"
1994
- Solo Show, The
Harvey Mansion, New Bern, North Carolina
- Solo Show, Common
Ground Café, Summit, NJ
- Solo Show, Automatic
Data Processing Corporate Headquarters, Roseland, NJ
- (NAG) "But
Will it Match the Couch?" Watchung Arts Center, NJ Reviews: The
Star Ledger "Does It Match the Sofa"
The Journal - "Too Many Artists Can't Spoil the Painting"
- (representation)
Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ
- (gallery) Hartnett
Art Gallery, Rahway, NJ
- (gallery) Summer
Show, Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
- (NAG) American
Cyanamid, Princeton, NJ
- (group) Union
County Arts Center, Rahway, NJ
- (NAG) Millburn
Library, Millburn, NJ
- (NAG) ADP Corporate
Headquarters, Roseland, NJ
- (NAG) Palmer Museum,
Springfield, NJ
- (group) Trenton
City Museum, Trenton, NJ
- (group) Somerset
County Building, Somerset, NJ
- (juried) "Personality"
Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ
1993
- Solo Shows, Pancho
& Lefty, New York City, Eastern Branch Monmouth County Library,
Burgdorff Realtors Corporate Headquarters, Murray Hill, NJ, Wall Library,
Wall, NJ, Madison Library, Madison, NJ, Automatic Data Processing Corporate
Headquarters, Roseland, NJ
- (NAG) "Daydreams
and Nightmares" Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Reviews: Forbes Newspapers - "Exhibition of Imagination"
Star Ledger - "Watchung Gallery Presents Show Designed by Committee"
- (gallery) Gallery
39, Hartnett Art Gallery, Union County Arts Center
- (NAG) Madison
Library, Burgdorff Realtors Corporate Headquarters, Chatham Library
- (juried) Trenton
City Museum, "Seven Deadly Sins" Watchung Arts Center, "12
½ x 12 ½" Watchung Arts Center, Carrier Foundation,
Tawa at Ellarslie, "Spiritual Matters"
Other Press: Star Ledger - "Painter Makes Mark as Board Member
at Watchung Arts:
1992
- Solo Shows, Watchung
Arts Center, Chatham Library, Millburn Library, Montclair Community
Hospital
Other Press:
Independent Press - "A Summer's Play Made Jim Fuess an Artist at
30"
1990
- Solo Shows, Perfect
Tommy's (New York City), Les Malamut Gallery, Roseland Library,
- Group Show at
St. Lifer Gallery
Other Press:
County Leader - "James Fuess Became Artist at Age 30"
1989
- Solo Show, Trapp
Gallery, Three Person Show, St. Lifer Gallery
1980
- Solo Show, Pacific
Grove Art Center (California)
1979
- Solo Show, Cherry
Foundation (California)
Works also displayed
at: d. Christian Gallery, Signatures Gallery, Tweed Gallery, St. Johns
Religious Art Show, Summit Art Center, Corporate Art Consultants, Nabisco
Corporate Headquarters, Merck Corporate Headquarters, Nathan's Gallery,
City Without Walls, White Gallery, Straley's Gallery, Magenta Gallery
and in numerous other shows.
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