James Kuo

Excerpted from Nancy Tobin Willig, "James Kuo Exhibit: Best Works Elegant, Subtle," Buffalo Courier Express, May 13, 1973, p. 7.

"An artist has a way of drawing based on his experience of daily 'seeing'...So much of painting is understanding essential art forms together with personal feelings.

I'm constantly aware of the visual presentation...Color, form and space, years of study and researching, ways of seeing, these are the important things. But it is space arrangement – the composition – that is my greatest concern.

An artist can never stop researching and developing his personal statement. This is a life- long involvement.

In the way I paint....I emphasize the contrast of positive and negative space, a contrast of the equal weight.

There is a kind of harmony between moving things and stable forms; like the harmony between positive and negative space. I present these contrasts without creating conflict. I present a harmonious statement."