"Sefirot" by James K-M

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by James KM

Opening Reception:  December 6, 2012  7 pm - 9 pm

Vancouver painter James K-M's exhibition, Sefirot, expresses an assemblage in each painting of one or more of the 10 spheres of divine attributes that compose the Tree of Life. K-M sees his paintings as "contemporary pictographs and abstract icons of energetic fields, and as metaphysical appropriations that interact to reveal a sentient conscious unknown."

The 10 sefirot or spheres of divine attributes of the Tree of Life are:

1. KETER - Crown and Emanation of Divine Light and Will

2. CHOKHMAH – Wisdom

3. BINAH – Understanding

4. HESED – Mercy

5. GEVURAH - Judgement or Power

6. TIFERET – Beauty

7. NETZACH – Endurance

8. HOD – Glory

9. YESOD – Foundation

10. MALCHUT – Kingdom

James K-M has worked for the past 30 years with geometric, hard edge, colourist and Kabbalistic abstraction. A 2012 artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT, James was recently included in Paleofuturity, a group exhibition at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario as well as in the Artist Magicians at Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Camagüey, Cuba.

This exhibit continues until January 6, 2013