Caldbeck will present work by James Prosek in WILD THING, a group show opening September 5, 2025. This Prosek’s debut with Cadlbeck. WILD THING 2025
Prosek writes,” My work I deeply inspired by nature’s diversity and complexity. I am currently exploring, for an exhibition a the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College themes related to trees, memory, shadows, the origin of drawing, and Shaker culture. I love New England, historically and environmentally. I grew up and live in Connecticut and over the years have spent a great deal of time in Maine, looking for remote populations of Arctic Char in lakes of the North Woods, writing about the eel fishery for my book of 2010 on Eels, accompanying commericial fisherman on a swordfish harpoon boat in the Gulf of Maine and for many other reasons. In May 2025 I painted a 90 foot mural outdid the Farnsworht Museum of Art called Gulf of Maine Pictographs.”
Artist, writer and naturalist, and Yale graduate James Prosek published his first book at nineteen years of age, Trout: an illustrated History (Alfred A.Knopf, 1966), which featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America.
Prosek’s work has been shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Yale Center for British Art, The Asia Society Hong King Center, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Addison Gallery of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, The North Carolina Museum of Art, The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. and the Yale University Art Gallery, among other institutions.
He has been an artist-in-residence a the Yale University Art Gallery, the Isabella Stewart Garner Museum and the Addison Gallery of American Art.