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About the Artist: The ability to listen is an artist's most important tool. It provides the eye a fulcrum from which perception thrives, and visual expression revels.  In the work of JAMES KAMINSKI, the ear is another source of creativity: one used with consummate respect for the hum of life in every aspect. Painter, designer, collagist, interior architect, teacher, Kaminski's scope has embraced what he calls the "humanity within." And it is this very act of embracing what life shows us that is implicit in his artwork. His is a vision of complete love of the spirit, of the body and mind in concert with attention to that particular "music" one hears when creativity reaches its source. Whether restoring new life into depleted neighborhood dwellings, or inspiring students to find their true callings, Kaminski is artist as humanist. He understands that the only importance is how we connect with each other, treat each other, and give back to each other.  His art erases the particular and specific; he prefers that sense of resonance art can have long after one looks at it: the bell's sound that lingers; the beauty of a form in the landscape not quite revealed but which calls us to rest there; the body's electric joy.  He understands that art must also come from hard work and a commitment to its challenges. Yet, he knows that art has its own ear, and it is that which one must be guided by.  Mentorship has been a key value in Kaminski's life. He has been graced with friendship and colleagues with whom he developed his art, and in whom he found support for its ideas. He pays tribute to these mentors by being one himself.  And all great mentors know the art of the ear. Kaminski embraces technology -- he finds its multiplicities of connection congruent to something more spiritual and embracing than we would imagine. Indeed, he finds it exhilarating to be able to commune with nature while on his Blackberry, take a photograph of the landscape in front of him, send it to friends, and have them share what he sees. These "immediate galleries" are part and parcel of what Kaminski feels technology does at its best: it brings the world close to us, and it lets us share in it. In the right hands, with the right use, he knows that technology can help sustain an appreciation of what is visible outside of us, and implicitly, that which resides inside of us. This then, is the ear of the world that we capture, and we are graced by seeing and listening back. Kaminski helps us do both as he explores his love of all of it.  

Oil on canvas 18 x 24 

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All proceeds go to the Inner Door Foundation which was created in 2006 to raise public awareness about eating disorders along with promoting education and holistic treatment. For more information, please visit: http://innerdoorcenter.com/index.php/foundation. 

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