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Jim Yale (b.1965, Portsmouth, Virginia) Jim Yale’s visual work is a meditation on the random combinations of color, message, language, and form found in everyday life. Yale’s figurative painting and drawing work pulls inspiration from Matisse, Cézanne, Die Brücke, and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Figures are often alone, sometimes in an undefined space. Gesture takes precedence over realism. Natural body language is the lingua franca; beauty is found In the turn of a head, a bend of a wrist or ankle, a shoulder half in shadow. Jim received his BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work is in private collections in North America, South America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. He paints at his studio in Chicago.