James K-M: Paintings

Black Magic, ink on paper, 18″x 24″, 1977

Blue One, ink on paper, 18″ x 24″, 1977

Portrait of Tristan Tzara, watercolour and ink on paper, 24″ x 18″, 1978

12 Paintings, Flavio Belli Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 1981

July 14, 1981, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48″ x 48″, 1981

#3, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48″ x 48″, 1982

Paintings/Drawings, Unit/Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., 1983

October Show, Vancouver, B.C., 1983

New Abstraction, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., 1984

Scarlet and Black, acrylic on canvas, 100 cm. x 100 cm., 1986

Coloured On A Flat, grunt gallery, Vancouver, B.C., 1987

Urbanarium, 1740 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C, 1987

Geo, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., 1988

“One group of these paintings is better than the others. Each of the paintings shows a single black image on (or within) a brown field; there is a chevron, a triangle, a Star of David. The Star, within the context of the set, is read less as a religious symbol and more as a heraldic device, recalling at the same time the use of the Star of David by the Jewish Kahazar Turks as a battle flag, and the irreverant mystical religiousity of Ad Reinhardt. The paintings are like shields hung in a hall after a campaign has ended. Their brown-ness gives the appearance of age, of the antique. This is a soiled, impure modernism, the modern as artifact.”
Robin Peck, Twilight, c Magazine, (September 1988), p. 77

The Other Painting, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 1988

Life Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 1989

Recent Paintings, The Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., 1990

Modern Abstract Paintings, Moon Base Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., 1998

Digitalis 1, Moon Base Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., 2001 (Wire, longevity pigment on canvas, 45″ x 60″, 2001)

Digitalis 2: The Spiritual in Digital Art, Evergreen Cultural Centre Art Gallery, Coquitlam, B.C., 2003

Digitalis 3: Urban Poetry, The Interurban, Vancouver, B.C., 2004 (Urban Totem, longevity pigment on canvas, 45″ x 60″, 2004)

Digitalis 4: Ethno Techno: An Exhibition of Digital Print, New Forms Festival, The Electra Building, Vancouver, B.C., 2004 (Home, longevity pigment on canvas, 45″ x 60″, 2004)

Digitalis 5: Patterns: An Exhibition of Digital Print, New Forms Festival at Video In, Vancouver, B.C., 2005 (Tris, longevity pigment on canvas, 45″ x 60″, 2005)

Cave Paintings, the Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, B.C., 2007 (Intercalm and Free Rain, 24″x 24″each, stain and acrylic on plywood, 2007)