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About Jim Hasselle

Coming from a  medical education with specialization in psychiatry, I have had an unique window on to human experience. With the added time of retirement I invested myself into expressing those years of personal and professional experience through art.

Sculpture has been my primary focus with ceramics, stone, and bronze, as most frequent media. I try to think of art as a process more than a product. The product should be in an understandable language, however.

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  • Ceramic Sculpture

    Ceramic Sculpture (13)

    The clay of ceramic sculpture began with nature's process of erosion and deposit. We humans have also altered our natural environment. Ceramic Sculpture explores our culture's adaptation to and alteration of nature.
     
  • Stone Sculpture

    Stone Sculpture (5)

    Stone sculpture especially gives the challenge to explore negative space as the stone is removed. The personality of the sculptor, as well as that of the stone work together in a synergistic way for the intended expression. Sometimes the product can more representative of the stone, on others more representative of the artist.
     
  • The Human Form

    The Human Form (11)

    Our response to the human form and expression is an instinctual and at times unconscious part of our experience. Understanding human forms and expressions is invaluable for our intended narrative as we create art.
     
  • Political Statements

    Political Statements (10)

    Just as art can reflect a concrete expression of emotion, so can sculpture reflect the concrete emotional narrative in our struggle for human rights and universal justice.
     
  • Mushrooms

    Mushrooms (5)

    Mushrooms (fungi) have an auspicious place in ancient China representing the spontaneous creation of life. A such they are here used as art reflecting our cultural tie to nature. As the world’s religions have unique understanding of creation; so are fungi unique in their natural presentations.