Exploring the experiential, poetic, unseen and simple, The Unseen Island is an exhibition about how the poetic can choose its time and place to reveal itself. The show features three Salt Spring artists: Eli Horn, James K-M, and Denise Okan and is curated by Juan Carlos Rodriguez Valdés. The Unseen Island, ArtSpring Gallery, Art Spring Island, BC, September 5-21, 2025. The […]
Active work began on the new series of 14 paintings this past summer. In the photo above, James prepares the plywood circles that he cut for the work. All paintings in this current project are latex on burlap-covered plywood.
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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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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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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
Top image – Cerulian Veil A series of 14, Latex and plexiglass on chipboard, 14″ x 12, 2024
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
James K-M presenting James K-M’s selected artworks at Point Gallery accompanied the artist talk and remained on exhibition for the following week First presentation, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 2019 – Havana Biennal Presenting the first Art and Ancestral Memory talk, James shows an image of the firey man created with Hebrew letters. Photo of presentation
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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.