James Stamboni

James Stamboni was born in Mount Kisco, NY. He graduated with his BFA from SUNY New Paltz before getting certified to teach art in New York State’s public schools. In 2016, he was poisoned by a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. The associated connective tissue damage would cost him the ability to walk on hard surfaces without the use of leg braces, as well as the ability to work as an educator in a public setting. Over the following six years, complications from this iatrogenic chronic illness nearly took his life on three occasions, before a combination of experimental treatments assisted in enough recovery to allow him to leave his apartment and begin painting again.

He currently lives in Lower Westchester, where he splits his time between commissioned portraiture and large scale figurative works. Autism allows him to replicate most things he sees in two dimensions, and to retain pretty much any information that kindles his interest. You are encouraged to talk to him about jazz, or most other music.