Biography

James Macdonell (b. 1958, Lafayette, LA) graduated from Amherst College in January 1980 with a degree in English. As part of the Five College program, he studied photography under Jerome Liebling, Elaine May, and Bill Arnold at Hampshire College, and printmaking under Barry Sease at Mount Holyoke. In 1976, James began working summer jobs on the island of Captiva, FL for noted artist Robert Rauschenberg. For James, this was the beginning of a transformative period that reshaped his perceptions, worldview, and aesthetic vision…