A WORD FROM JIM CHARETTE BEFORE YOU ENTER

"First,I want to say thank you for having interest enough in what I do to find your way here.I must warn you in advance though that some people have been shocked,disturbed and/or offended by some of my work.That said,I want you to know that THAT is not my intention.I try to be as honest as I can be to the images and ideas that present themselves to me and I refuse to censor the muses.I am merely a reflection of and a reaction to the world that I see around me.On the other hand if,in a time when war,famine,aids,pedophilia,rape,torture,animal cruelty and any number of other hideous crimes of humanity against itself and everything around it are almost considered acceptable behavior,you can still be offended by an image,then,perhaps you should be.-Jim Charette"

 

ART OF JIM CHARETTE
paintings 2009
new work 2009
the imposters 2009
fragments 2009
portraits 2009
drawings 2009
automatic response 2009
2008 and before
2008-1
2008-2

the televangelical posse wants your soul 2008

hunger tribe 2008
apocalypse boyz 2008
mixed media 2007
fitty dolla'sideshow 2007
black&white man 2005/2007
2007 and before
other work
video campfire journals
tattoos
photographic experiments
international collage exchange 
NOTE:The larger canvases that I work on are all on unstretched canvas and as such I wish for them to be displayed this way.In general I seldom ever frame my work as I feel like it separates the viewer from the art and,in fact,wherever I have used frames in a piece,they become a part of the piece.I want the viewer to see the hand of the artist in the work and to connect directly with the work and I feel that frames and glass only serve to separate the two and lessen the experience.-Jim Charette
for all inquiries on purchasing the art of jim charette or to arrange a gallery showing please contact sue corbin at suecorbinagency@aol.com

The Jim Charette Sound Project was officially started April 8th,2008,when I approached a few friends about letting me use some of their lyrical and vocal skills to mix in with some of the muzak I'd created.I've always considered it muzak as I am not a musician,nor do I pretend to be one.I don't consider these 'songs' so much as pieces of art,sound sculptures if you will.Simply an artist playing with sound.I am not a performer,once I record these improvised tracks I will never play them again.I wouldn't want to repaint the same painting over and over again as I am less interested in performing them than I am in creating them.So,as of April 8th,2008 and continuing through April 7th 2009,I will post one new piece every day and then see where I go from there.So,please,check them out and,if you enjoy them,tell somebody you know about them,and feel free to let me know what you think.I appreciate any and all feedback.

Jim Charette

coming soon-free mp3 downloads of all 26 available discs.they will be posted as they are ready so,check back often.
VIDEO
art
video campfire journals
beating a dead horse
music
cartoons and animations

 

So why Riverrats Press you might well ask??

Well,it's simple really.I am from a city called Fall River and,unlike many who also grew up here,I have always loved this city.I haven't traveled extensively but,I've been on enough road trips,from New York to Georgia,Florida,Ohio,South Dakota and many in between,to have seen a lot of places in this vast country of ours.I've seen a plethora of cities and towns that would have made fine places to live but,they all have the same things in common.Whether they're full of hills and mills or forests and mountains,are smack dab in the middle of the flat plains or an amalgam of concrete and steel,they all have a good side and a bad side.Fall River is no different in that respect.I was born and raised in this working class town and more than just proud to say so.And thus when it came time to come up with a name,back in 91,for a company to do business as I wanted to include my home in that mix and thus....

I AM a Riverrat!!-Jim Charette

 

 

 

THIS SITE CREATED AND MAINTAINED BY RIVERRATS PRESS-ALL SOUND SCULPTURES ON THIS SITE,INCLUDING THE ONE YOU ARE NOW LISTENING TO,WERE CREATED BY THE JIM CHARETTE SOUND PROJECT.ALL ARTWORK IS THE LEGAL PROPERTY OF JIM CHARETTE AND MAY NOT BE COPIED,SOLD OR USED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT FROM:

JIM CHARETTE riverratspress@verizon.net OR HIS MIDWEST AGENT,SUE CORBIN.suecorbinagency@aol.com