THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Hilarie M. Sheets
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| Fatima Shaik and James Little in their Garment District apartment with, clockwise from top left, two untitled 1972 works by Alma Thomas; “Untitled” (1978) by Toshio Iwasa; “Untitled” (2001) also by Iwasa; and, perched over that frame, “Money Lures,” made of shredded money, by Richard Mock (1975). Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
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“Coming from my background, which was a very segregated upbringing in Tennessee, I felt that abstraction reflected the best expression of self-determination and free will,” said the artist
James Little, 67. “I have this affinity for color, design, structure and optimism.” The Garment District apartment where Mr. Little lives with his wife, Fatima Shaik, a writer, is hung with dynamic abstractions by artists including
Toshio Iwasa,
Stanley Whitney,
Thornton Willis and
Stewart Hitch. “I don’t really follow trends,” said Mr. Little, as can be seen in the couple’s collection of more than 100 works. [
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| From left, “Untitled” (1985), by Thornton Willis, and “Bad Red” (2003), by James Biederman. |
