statement

When one is born, their self-image is a pure crisp pool of water.  When one experiences something traumatic, it acts as a pollutant to this self-image.  The concentration of the trauma may diffuse over time, but the initial concentration is difficult to bear.  One has altered the very definition of their self through this trauma.  When a parent dies, one loses the definition of "my mother's son."  When one experiences heartbreak, one loses the definition of "my lover's significant other."  The remnants of the diffused pollutant remain in the pool for a lifetime, slowly darkening that pure pool we're born with, but we slowly adapt to survive the filth.

bio

born: 1986, Clarksville, TN

education:

Austin Peay State University, BFA, 2011

selected publications

My American Artist, Self-Portrait Competition, Interweave Press p. 45, October 2008

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Diffusion: A Series of Drawings by James Linkous, Gallery 108 at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, 2010

selected group shows

Nude Nite Tampa, Gallery 17-92, Tampa, FL, 2011
Nude Nite Orlando, Gallery 17-92, Orlando, FL, 2011
6th Annual Rites of Passage, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2010
17th Annual International CPSA Exhibition, Jaqueline C. Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA, 2009