Known for his monumental and experiential sculptures and installations, Anthony James focuses on experimentation with light and space in his works Now based in Los Angeles, the artist was born in the UK in 1974 He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and graduated in 1998 Operating between mythical and experiential, iconic and arbitrary, works by the artist dwell on minimalism, materiality and spatial concepts

Talking about his works, the artist says, “My work is my best attempt at giving the impossible, the infinite, a physical, objective existence The materials are merely an extension of the gesture I start with the gesture and have spent decades distilling these concepts down to the essential So whether I’m using vanguard, illustrious materials and high technology or centuries-old metal techniques — my interest is in communicating the most direct way I can There is a minimalistic simplicity to the work, yet it expresses something infinite — it’s a pluralistic paradox I’ve tried to visually demonstrate the colossally vast and the infinitesimally small — the cosmos and the divinity inside oneself" The abstraction of the mathematical computation of faultless coherence is given a solid and dazzling tangibility by the glass, steel, and LED structures

The artist came to gain widespread recognition with the debut of his Birch series in New York in 2005 Inspired by the ancient Greeks who burned sacrifices to Aphrodite in birch forests, the series consisted of works depicting the essence of birch forest through internally lit infinity vitrine Titled ‘Morphic fields,’ his first monograph was published in 2014 by Hatje Cantz His works have been showcased in exhibitions across several international avenues, including the Palm Springs Art Museum collection, USA and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art He was also selected to be a part of the Mayfair Sculpture Trail in 2020, during which his 97 inches high Crystal was in