ARTIST-SCULPTOR JIM GARY-(1939-2006)

Jim Gary, grew up in Colts Neck and always remained based in central Jersey. Jim's work is represented in the collections of corporate, institutional, and private collectors. Jim Gary’s last exhibit was held in Manasquan, New Jersey at "Tycoon Galleries" October 15,2005 thru December 31,2005. Jim Gary exhibited many of his most important works of art at this exhibit and numerous sculptures were sold, Jim wanted those who loved his art to enjoy owning it. It was his final statement to all those supposed friends who abandoned him following his failed health over the last four years of his life, “I’m back he stated to Corbett McCarthy of Tycoon Galleries LLC with a glee in his eye’s “now they can tear up the markers they forced me to sign for sums as little as $75.00 each, I’m on my way again, thanks you made it all possible” Jim Gary's work has been featured on television programs such as New York Views, Good Morning America, Prime Time, That's Incredible, CNN News, The Electric Company, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Discovery Channel, To Tell the Truth, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.; the National Academy of Design and the Sculpture League in New York City; the Philadelphia Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh; as well as major museums in Staten Island, New Brunswick, Newark, Rochester, Princeton, Greenwich, Boston, Charleston, Memphis, Tallahassee, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Saint Louis, Birmingham, Denver, Amarillo, Phoenix, the Field Museum in Chicago- Flagstaff, Seattle, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco----Solo exhibitions of Jim Gary's sculpture have been given in all regions of the United States. Internationally, artist Jim Gary's has traveled around the world, as far away as, China, Japan and Australia, where his solo exhibitions have toured throughout those nations, often for as long as nine months after openings in the capitol.