James jean is a Taiwanese American painter know for both his fine art and commercial art. He has worked with DC comics, 
ESPN, Prada, and Atlantic records. His work has been called disturbing, dark, inspiring, and according to the New York Times has compared him to Mayfield 
Parrish. A young James was born in Taiwan and was raised in New Jersey. Growing up he loved to draw and was even more in love with comics. One of the main things he wanted to do was work for the comic industry. After graduating from high school he went to the school of Visual Arts in New York City, which he graduated from in 2001.
After graduating he sent his portfolio to DC comic and very quickly landed a job as a cover artist. His style was very different from the normal type of covers done having a more fine art look. His most notable cover work was for the comic series “Fables”. In 2008 Jean was losing his interests in comic covers and decided to focus on his fine art. From that point he went on to hold several gallery shows as well as commissions for several companies. One of his most notable works were fashion powerhouses Prada and Phillip Lim. In 2007 Jean created a mural for the Prada epicenter stores in New York and Los Angeles for their fashion show. For Phillip in 2010 Jean was commission
ed to paint a series of portraits featuring Los Angeles actors and other high end entertainers. Today James Jean main focused fully to fine art, open a new galleries often. Personally Im a huge fan of his work I love his use of color and strange figures. I hope to put a little of his techenques into my art.
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