November 2016 Exhibition link
James Sedwick (born Erie, Pa., 1946), a graduate of Gannon University and SUNY at Buffalo, retired from the practice of psychotherapy in 2015. He lives in South Wales, N.Y. He has photographed and sculpted since high school and shows his work with the Buffalo Society of Artists and at Meibohm Fine Arts. In addition, his photographs have appeared in The Sun and Orion magazines, the journal Steam Ticket, LensWork Extended 99, Looking at Images (LensWork Publishing), and have been included in private and public collections. He studied with Andrea Modica, Keith Carter, and Dennis Stock. He prints his images in the darkroom with alternative process chemistry and sculpts in wood and stone. His poetry has appeared in Blueline, Passager, Gentle Strength Quarterly, Passages North, The Buffalo News, Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (Boaz), Celebrations (July Literary Press), and Hello, Goodbye: Stories, Essays and Poems for the 21st Century (July Literary Press). G.K. Chesterton’s statement informs his work: The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled but to make settled things strange.
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 With These Hands: Photography by James Sedwick and Fiber Sculpture by Tami Fuller, Comma Gallery, East Aurora, NY
2023 Art in Craft Media, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2022 Essence: Works by William C. Maggio and James Sedwick, Hunt Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2022 126th Catalog Exhibition, Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo Art Movement, Buffalo, NY
2022 What the Camera Sees,Western New York Artists Group/Artists Group Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2022 Blurring the Lines: Exploring the Frontiers of Photography and Print Making, Remarque Workshop and Gallery, Alburquerque, NM
2021 125th Catalog Exhibition, Buffalo Society of Artists, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY
2020 124th Catalog Exhibition, Buffalo Society of Artists, Kenan House Gallery, Lockport, NY
2019 123rd Catalog Exhibition, Buffalo Society of Artists, Sisti Gallery North, Pendleton, NY
2018 95th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pa
2016 Artists of the Southtowns/Southern Tier: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection, Springville Center for the Arts, Springville, NY
2016 The Amaryllis in Palladium, (solo), Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY
2015 Tears of Things: Photographs, (solo), TGW@497 Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2014 Mirrored: Artists' Self-Portraits From the Gerald Mead Collection, Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Gallery, Daemen College, Amherst, NY
2014 Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show, Third Prize, Juror: Anne Welles, Director, Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY
2013 117th Catalogue Exhibition, Buffalo Society of Artists , Bronze Medal Award, Juror: George Afedzi Hughes, Professor of Art, SUNY at Buffalo, Lockport, NY
2012 21st Annual Regional Artists Exhibition, WNY Artists Group, Honorable Mention, Juror: Anthony Bannon, Director, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2011 Trilogies XXII: The Work of Three Artists, WNY Artists Group/Art Dialogue Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2011 Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show, Past Presidents’ Award, Juror: Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Buffalo, NY
2011 Photographs of the Gardens (Solo), Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Buffalo, NY
2010 14th Annual Juried Members Exhibition, WNY Artists Group, Nova Photography Award, Juror: Ted Pietrzak, Director, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2009 113th Fall Catalogue Show, Buffalo Society of Artists, Peter J. Heffley Award, Juror: Gregory Wittkopp, Director, Cranbrook Art Museum, Lockport, NY
(Source: The artist.)