E-mail: jimandkatemundie@juno.com

James G. Mundie graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1995, where he studied printmaking and painting. James Mundie also attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a B.F.A. magna cum laude in 1997. Mr. Mundie's paintings, drawings and prints have been shown in numerous exhibitions at venues in the United States, Japan, and Great Britain.

PRODIGIES
This series of new and recent drawings presents portraits of "anomalous humans" --sometimes called "monstrosities" or "freaks" -- in contexts borrowed from artworks of centuries past. In the spirit of hte sideshow, where even a three-legged man would be re-invented to appear more interesting, James Mundie has created new "histories" for his subjects in which fact and fancy are liberally mingled. The resulting images are at once familiar, humorous and startling.

Prodigies was first intended to be a series of etchings. True to that original vision but translated into a different form, James Mundie's layered pen strokes evoke the lush textures of aquatint and mezzotint. It is the artist's intention to revisit these images at a later point to present Prodigies as a series of limited edition original prints.

Copyright James Mundie, 1998-2000