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Artist in the Class

For the 2024-25 school year, James is happy to be participating in the Artist in the Classroom program from Salt Spring Arts. The AiC program brings professional local artists into Salt Spring island Schools for rich, hands-on creative experiences. He is offering workshops in creative evolving self-portraits, for students ages 5-18. Booked for this 2024

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Ceremony of Privacy

James K-M’s work, Ceremony of Privacy, was in the first Provocation: Investigating Technology exhibition,July 6th – August 10th, 2024, on Salt Spring Island, BC ,Canada Artist Statement This work is called Ceremony of Privacy in which I am retrieving the early days of print media about digital culture, when there was initially an artistic innocence and an

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Maximum Vortex

Wall installation, Latex on metal faucet handles, 22″ x 22″, 2023 James first worked with metal faucet handles as a medium in the Big and Little Dippers, shown as floor pieces on tiles in Cuba, at the Havana Biennial. Big Dipper, 2016 blue spray paint on metal faucet handles, rubber washers, 12″ x 30″ x

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Re:Location

Artist Statement The idea is to create a tight geometric abstraction that incorporates its own ruin, or wound, or window-through. I always proceed from an intuitive, indirect impulse. Whether making sculptures or painting on skulls, plywood, or archaeological-like objects, my purpose is to artistically juxtapose the ancient and contemporary cross-culturally, to retain the sculptural and

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Mirror Series

The first major work James completed in his studio on Salt Spring was the Mirror Series, consisting of 14 large 30″ x 30″ geometric paintings In his studio, James sits in front of the Yellow Mirror. Each work in the series is acrylic on canvas.

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