Jim Strong is an Artist and Curator based in the outskirts of Philadelphia, PA who employs homespun low-tech processes to create personal languages in Painting, Musical Instrument Invention, Anthropomorphic furniture, Poetry, and DIY Publishing – Often merging many of these elements into works and environments, which are both devotional and absurd. He operates the experimental music label, COR ARDENS and under constantly shifting pretexts has organized events and workshops in abandoned graveyards, school auditoriums and exhibition spaces throughout the Philadelphia area. His work is committed to a discreet world-building in which the viewer may also observe inside jokes and desperate allusions to the artist’s faith, beliefs, confusions and friendships. One may also catch brief references to his on-going amateur-research into the history of religious antinomianism, Vitalist currents in the tradition of William Blake and Meister Eckhart, American Utopian experiments, and the pop-mysticism of UFO and other anomalous phenomena.

He has created site-specific work for the National Liberty Museum, The Philadelphia Flower Show and Rhizome DC and exhibited at Vox Populi Gallery, Space 1026 (Phila, PA), Platform Project Space (New York, NY) , The Center for New Music (San Francisco, CA) and Hudson House (Hudson, NY). His video work has been screened at RAUMERWEITERUNGSHALLE (Berlin-Friedrichshain) CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, DK), Unrequited Leisure (Knoxville, TN) and Icebox Projects (Phila, PA)

for all inquiries please contact the artist directly: Jmm.Strong@gmail.com

Drop World, music video collaboration with Drew Zimmerman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2LxrS-kMs