The Art Collection
at Paragon Star
Explore Paragon Star's curated art collection, featuring stunning works from world renowned artists. Discover the creativity and culture that enrich our vibrant community.
Anthony James
Portal
Metal, Mirrors, Glass and LED
Anthony James (B. 1974) is a London-born, Los Angeles-based artist who graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with a degree in painting. James is known for his monumental sculptures and installations that embrace Minimalism, Transcendentalism, and Light & Space. In the winter of 2023, James became the first and only visual artist to have work exhibited on all seven continents when he installed one of his stainless steel, glass, and LED Portals at White Desert’s base camp in Antarctica near the South Pole.
“It doesn’t matter what your education level is, what language you speak, what culture you are brought up in, or where you are from,” says James. “My work deals with a universal language based in sacred geometry. It’s innate to everyone on the planet, so it’s an honor to have my work on view in every continent.”
James’s major public installations have occupied a garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s annual Chelsea Flower Show in 2022, where the artist installed three light sculptures emulating natural crystal formations. These were showcased in tandem with 16 transmorphic color sculptures at Saatchi Gallery, connected to a central ethernet “brain” feeding algorithmic cues to the sculptures, mimicking the mycorrhizal networking of birch forests. In 2021, James engaged the facade of the Flannels flagship on London’s Oxford Street with 33 million LEDs that wrapped the boutique’s exterior inside three dozen digital canvases projecting films exploring the infinite interiors of the artist’s Portal sculptures. He has also worked with the city of Westminster to install three monumental Light Field sculptures at Marble Arch in Hyde Park, drawing more than 250,000 visitors in three months.
“In my practice, I’m trying to give a visual demonstration of the infinite or the divinity inside us all,” says James. “If you’re seeing and experiencing this ever-expanding cosmos, hopefully that’s a window to explore this underlying law of nature, this inner light.”
Anthony James’s sculptural installations have been exhibited at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Berkeley Square (London), Art Basel (Switzerland), and The Armory Show (New York). He has works currently on public display in Aspen, Beverly Hills, Singapore, Dubai, London, and New York. His work was recently featured in the major motion picture Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story and has been the subject of solo gallery exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery (London); Opera Gallery (New York, Dubai, London); Brand New Gallery (Milan), There -There and Patrick Painter, Inc. (Los Angeles), and notable group shows at Blum & Poe (Los Angeles), SHOWstudio (London), Gavlak (Palm Beach), and Thread Waxing Space (New York). His work has also been featured in The New York Times, CULTURED, Artnet, Vogue, Whitewall, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Wallpaper*, and his Morphic Fields exhibition at Walter Storms Galerie (Munich) was the subject of a titular catalog published by Hatje Cantz.
Bates Wilson
Jackson
Polished and Painted Metal
Sculptor Bates Wilson (B. 1960) has exhibited with the gallery since 2009. During the past ten years, the scale, ambition, and execution of his diverse oeuvre have attracted corporate and private collection interest both nationally and internationally. His monumental work is in the collection of Norwegian Cruise Lines, Plan Do See Inc. in Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan, and the New York Historical Society. Private collections include Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, Australia, and the UK. The origins of his work involve the use of discarded industrial materials, including metal and wood, used to create imagined fauna: billfish, large mammals, biomorphic airplanes, steampunk surfboards, and larger-than-life insects. His work is exciting, dynamic, and accessible to both the general public and collectors who are attracted to both the subject matter and execution of his work. The gallery has held numerous one-man exhibitions of his work, and he has exhibited at FADA Los Angeles, Art Next Chicago, and twice during Miami Art Week at SCOPE International Art Fair (2018, 2019).
Okuda San Miguel
Squirrel and Penguin
Fiberglass, Paint and Metal
Okuda’s repertoire includes solo shows in galleries, art fairs, museums, and outdoor installations all over the world. His work is sought by collectors and art institutions because of his unique iconographic language, geometric structures, and wide palette of colors. In recent years, strong interest in his work has been arising in Asia, where he has created outstanding public art installations and has collaborated with strong partners such as K11 Art Museums or Bund18. Furthermore, his active participation in major social projects with Coloring the World Foundation - of which he is Honorary President - has made him one of the world’s most recognized and admired artists.
“My work is inspired by surrealism, ancient cultures, popular icons, and the virtual world with a nod to my past as a graffiti writer,” he says. “I try to avoid fixed messages; I prefer to address universal themes. I like to encourage questions instead of giving answers. For me, it’s not the solution that’s important; it’s the path that takes you there.” He continues, “The most special thing about working in the street is transforming new places with color inspired by the people who live there; it is the root of my strong interest in encouraging cultural dialogue.”
Andrew Carson
Mini Color Swirl, Glassinator, Small Color Galaxy
Glass, Metal, Rubber
“What exactly is interactive art? How do I blend mechanics and aesthetics? What do I convey through my kinetic sculptures? These are the questions I have pondered throughout my career as an artist.”
“I create my sculpture to interact with people and solve riddles of landscape, both interior and exterior. It is not always easy to blend functionality with form. Only a few of the kinetic sculptures I dream are ever realized.”
“Each design starts as a rough sketch on paper. Periodically, I sift through my sketches and execute the most intriguing. From there, I work methodically: sizing the parts, figuring out the mechanics, perfecting the rotations, and developing the prototypes. When the design is complete, I print the final drawings at full scale. Then, I engineer and make the parts using a combination of industrial processes and handworking. This includes every piece: pillars, metal elements, glass cups, hubs, and transitions. Each piece is fabricated by hand.”