THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: JAMES MACDONELL 'THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE'

“Successful work has a sense of urgency. You don’t question why you’re doing something or why you picked this object over that object on any given day. I don’t spend a lot of time judging my work.”

I first met James Macdonell through a mutual friend, Andres Villamil. It was the mid-nineties, SoHo, New York City. At the time, James was a working musician known as Jimmy Mac who was the lead singer of the band Loup Garou. As a musician he was well-respected, working with other noted musicians such as Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Paul Simon, Bryan Ferry, Robert Palmer, David Byrne, and Johnny Sayles.

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Street Date: Tuesday December 9th 2025

Terrence Sanders-Smith

Terrence Sanders-Smith has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine, Turnstile Magazine, Art Thug Magazine (ATM) and Artvoices Books.