James Kendall Higgins is a Southern California artist whose painting and sculptural practice centers on the psychological affect of surface and abstraction. Rooted in the vocabulary of mid-20th century abstract painting, his current body of work explores the tenuous relationship between looking and seeing, employing materials like silver emulsion to build up surface and pigment while obfuscating the viewer’s reflection. Higgins studied Fine Art and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and was honored with a fellowship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His work has been shown in galleries and design showrooms. Site specific commissions are held in private and corporate collections. Higgins’s practice seeks to bridge the white cube of gallery and museum spaces with domestic interiors: developing discursive works that engage and react to the environments within which they reside.