Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Rather than seeing Las Vegas as culturally vacant, James Stanford looks around him and sees artistic opportunity. One of the UNLV alumnus’ endeavors involves taking photographs of many of Las Vegas’ iconic neon signs and architecture and using them as the basis of new works of art. After years of photographing such images, Stanford began using

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Contemporary artist James Stanford opened a new exhibition featuring photomontages of vintage Las Vegas landmarks and the citys famed neon signs. The free exhibit, titled Shimmering Zen opened on Friday, Sept. 21 and runs through Saturday, Nov. 24 in The Studio at the Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Avenue. Learn more about Stanford and the

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Shimmering Zen: Visions of Vegas – new Las Vegas exhibition by James Stanford In a new exhibition entitled Shimmering Zen, innovative digital artist James Stanford will exhibit a range of kaleidoscopic digital collages of original photographs that capture Las Vegas’ iconic aesthetic. “Shimmering Zen reflects Stanford’s continued interest in transforming reality into imagined realms and in

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: When I began checking out Las Vegas galleries in the mid 1990s, I didn’t make enough money to put local art on my walls. (I barely made enough to have walls.) And it was 10 years before I had a camera on my phone, 15 before I had a good one. So when I visited the

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Who are you? I am James Stanford, I’m a 70 year old artist, who was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Who was your biggest influencer? My oldest brother graduated from the University of Nevada with a degree in fine art in 1953. Although he was 18 years older than I, he became a great

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Britney Spears made her solo debut, David Bowie his final public appearance and this year, David Tupaz showed his designs at Fashion Week at the Manhattan Center, an ornate, venue whose majestic, hand-painted ceiling provides a firmament for artists and patrons. A stage for opera, and later, vaudeville, the venue has continued with a range of

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: James Stanford’s Shimmering Zen is now on exhibit at The Studio-Sahara West Library in Las Vegas, Nevada, through December 8, 2018. It has been described as the intersection of Las Vegas and Buddhism. The digital images are intricate, detail-dense, neatly symmetrical, abstract, mandala-like. Most often they’re layers of details cropped from historic photos of Vegas signage

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: You have used different media in your career to express your work, painting, photography … Why did you switch from traditional art to digital art? My painting technique was very detailed and laborious. I used ancient glazing techniques and set a standard for myself that I couldn’t take into the real world. In graduate school, some of

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: James Stanford’s new exhibition features digital collages of neon signs and Las Vegas landmarks, including the Flamingo, Binion’s (pictured) and Fremont Street. It will be on display through Dec. 8 in The Studio at the Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave. A reception with Stanford will be 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. For more information,

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: American contemporary Buddhist artist James Stanford’s highly acclaimed “Shimmering Zen” exhibition will travel from London to The Studio at Sahara West Library on September 21, and will continue through November 24, 2018. “Shimmering Zen” premiered at the 20th Anniversary of Asia Art in London, the global hub of Asian contemporary art and antiquities featuring over sixty