James Siena is an artist who was born in California in 1957. He spent most of his formative years in Washington D.C. and got his BFA from Cornell University. His intricate, rule-based abstractions are made of intensely concentrated, vibrant, freehand geometric patterns. He works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting. His work is in numerous public and private collections across the U.S., including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has lectured at numerous institutions throughoiut the US including the MFA Fine Arts department at the School of Visual Arts. He completed a residency at Yaddo where he is now on the board. Brian spoke with James at Pace Gallery.