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James Angus Re-joining the World

In 2017, Angus and his wife, artist Liz Linden, decided to leave New York and move to California. “It was a period of consolidation, and I didn’t make a lot of work. I started a fairly intense renovation of a beautiful but terrifying Victorian house in Berkeley and set up some studio spaces, so everything is now under the same roof,” he relates. “My wife and I wanted to create a situation where we would have the best chance of focusing on our work, and so far I think we’ve achieved that.”

The famously mild weather in California allows Angus to work outside for long stretches of the year: between benches in the garden, an

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