James Jean 'Sun Tarot Nebula Nectar' Print Release Details

Artist: James Jean
Title: Sun Tarot Nebula Nectar
Medium: Spot Varnished FancyAF Embossed Giclee
Size: 9 x 12.5 Inches
Edition: TIMED
Price: €375

*available at 1pm EST on Friday October 31st

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James Jean is a Taiwanese-American artist born in 1979 who moves between illustration, painting and monumental installation with fluid grace. Raised in New Jersey and trained at New York’s School of Visual Arts, he first gained fame creating intricate covers for DC Comics’ Fables and The Umbrella Academy, winning six Eisner Awards for his combination of delicate line work and jewel toned atmosphere . In 2007 he stepped away from commercial deadlines to focus on gallery painting, producing large canvases where human forms melt into blooming flora, rippling water and geometric shards, suggesting dreams caught mid transformation.

His relationship with Takashi Murakami is built on mutual admiration rather than pupilage. Murakami invited Jean to join the 2016 group show Juxtapoz x Superflat at Vancouver Art Gallery, placing Jean’s painting Bouquet at the centre of the exhibition branding . Murakami later curated Azimuth, Jean’s 2018 solo show at Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, writing that Jean’s narrative drawings possess “a language original to his brain” and praising his ability to dissolve the boundary between illustration and high art . The two artists share an interest in flattening hierarchies: Murakami’s Superflat merges pop culture and fine art, while Jean fuses Renaissance detail, Chinese scroll painting and street art energy into luminous contemporary mythologies.

Today Jean lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to paint, publish limited prints and create immersive stained glass installations, proving that stories can glow as brightly on gallery walls as they once did on comic book covers.