Bio

My approach into each painting starts with a color. I am passionate about each stroke that is laid down. After many layers of wax brushstrokes, I step back and objectively look at the composition from all directions to see what the painting expresses to me. I look to see a physical response in my work, especially a desire to reach out and touch the painting. It is my intention for you to have a sensory and a visual experience with this work.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut

EDUCATION
1996 Maryland Institute, College of Art BFA
2006 Studied with Ezshwan Winding San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

ABOUT
A transformation in his painting accompanied his career migration from Baltimore to Pt. Pleasant Beach, where he found himself deeply inspired by his seaside surroundings. From the flat, distinct areas of color in color field painting, Inzero’s work merges into a three-dimensional reference to landscape. He captures the diffused light and mist with a quiet and serene effect. His paintings consist of dripped and flung color under the haze and gauze of a transparent wash of encaustic on wood panel. They are mood paintings of an all-over color field with an exquisite sensibility for muted hues. Ethereal yet organic, his paintings convey a sense of spirituality and meditation.

SELECTED GROUP / JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Group Show Flamboyan Foundation Wash., DC with Luis Torruella
2009 Group Show Gallery 638 Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ with David Turton, Patty Neibling
2008 Manifestations in Paint and Wax Gallery 638 Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ with Jude Harzer
2008 Shore Institute of Contemporary Art - Juried group show Best Painting in Show juror Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
2008 Trenton Artists Workshop Association Inside/Out Group Show - Juried group show
2007 Solo exhibit Point Pleasant Beach Library, NJ
2006 Group show Maryland Institute, College of Art 15”x15”
2005 Group show Maryland Institute, College of Art 15”x15”
2004 Group show Maryland Institute, College of Art 15”x15”
2003 Group show Maryland Institute, College of Art 15”x15”
1999 Solo exhibit Helens Garden Restaurant Baltimore, MD

GALLERIES
Charles Michaels Gallery Darien, Ct

Publications

New Jersey Shore Life Aug 2009

j i m i n z e r o

Jim Inzero grew up on Long Island Sound in Connecticut

and always knew he wanted to be an artist. "In high school I

won several art awards and received scholarships to study at

the Maryland Institute College of Art," he said. "There, I studied

interior architecture and design and got my first job working for

an architect in Baltimore. I worked on historical renovations, college

campus master plans and documenting historical buildings

to be on the map. On weekends, I worked at a furniture design

store, where I met my future wife. She’s the one who first introduced

me to the Jersey Shore, and it was love at first sight!"

He always wanted to live by the water, that was his passion.

They moved to the Jersey Shore in 2001 and opened their first

store. Jim did all the interior design and helped his wife with

the buying, which meant traveling to shows, meeting artisans,

which inspired him to get back into his art. "I worked for a local

architect and started making surfboard clocks and frames for

the store. I needed to express myself artistically. We traveled a

lot during the slow months and on a trip to Mexico, I took an

encaustic class. This medium is used with beeswax, damar resin,

and powdered pigment. I melt all of these at once and then paint

it on with a brush which needs to done quickly before the wax

dries. Then once it is on the canvas, I use a blowtorch and a heat

gun to move the wax around to get the composition I'm looking

for. With encaustic, I could express the colors and beauty of the

shore. I’ve been doing encaustic for several years now and sell

my work at our store Stella e Luna, at our new location on corner

of Arnold and Bay Ave. in Point Pleasant Beach." Last winter

one of Jim's pieces won best in show (painting category) at the

Shore Institute of Contemporary Art in Long Branch.

In some of his sailboat pieces (shown above), he embeds local

maps into the wax. "My love for sailing comes from the time I

spent sailing and racing on the Chesapeake Bay. Living by the

water brings out my creativity, the ever-changing water and sky

is a constant inspiration. I observe that the colors and textures

used in my paintings bring out a definite emotion to the viewer."

— Pete Milnes •