page_title: James Lavadour
section_title: Early work
hierarchical_section_title: James Lavadour / Fine art career / Early work
caption_attribution_description: English: A headshot portrait of Pacific Northwest painter and artist, James Lavadour, at the gallery which represents him, PDX Contemporary Art, in Portland, Oregon, dated March 2012.
context_page_description: James Lavadour is an American painter and printmaker. A member of the Walla Walla tribe, he is known for creating large panel sets of landscape paintings. Lavadour is the co-founder of the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts.
  I believe that a painting must stand up on its own without explanation. I think of myself as an abstract action painter. I just happen to see landscape in the abstract events of paint. - James Lavadour
context_section_description: Primarily self-taught, Lavadour grew up exploring his environment on the Umatilla Indian Reservation and Western Oregon. His earlier works, reminiscent of German romanticism, displayed what an impact geology and landscape had on his creation process through his own monochromatic abstract lens (he described these works as his Interiors). Described as "emotional interpretations of the land," these Interiors tend to look like painted, hazy photograph-like paintings with streaks of color traveling through them.
caption: James Lavadour at PDX Contemporary Art gallery, 2012
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