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James McNulty
James McNulty, a pyro-technician and self-taught artist from Nevada, stands today as a prominent figure in the almost unknown art of fireworks. He has turned his firecrackers into an occupational folk art. His collages, brimming with a sense of naiveté which is revealed through the rich variety of colors and textures of the firecracker wrappers, serve to remind us of the repercussion of the discovery of gunpowder in world history. The most striking quality of these collages is the richness of the colors, which suggest a Fauvist painting, and visual noise. The originality of his art culminates at the point where the artist himself declared to have “inadvertently invented the realm of fireworks art display and design”.
James McNulty was born in Providence, RI and has lived in Reno, NV since 1993. He has studied graphic art printing, and pyrotechnics. |
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