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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Artist James King has been paining for almost 6 decades. His work has shown in galleries on the West Coast and has found homes all over the world. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. He is a member of the Washington Society of Artists. For the past 6 years he has struggled with chronic angular closure glaucoma with 20 degree peripheral vision.
His art has been shown at the garden room gallery at the Vintner restaurant in San Francisco, Petri's fine arts in downtown Sausalito California. In the early 80s he was affiliated with the Albany, Oregon art, guild and shown in their gallery in downtown Albany, Oregon.
He has shown in galleries all along the Central Oregon coast Seaside, Lincoln city, Lincoln Beach, Depot Bay and Yachats.
Up until this last year, November, December and January he showed pieces in the corridor gallery in Vancouver Washington.
He currently enjoys sharing his art each summer at the Gresham Farmers Market from the first of May to the end of October.
Everyone sees the world through a different set of eyes. The term."Legally blind" Refers only to a degree of sight loss. Being legally blind covers a whole spectrum of Vision loss.
"The only usable site that I have is some center vision in my right eye, in other words, tunnel vision. The closer I am to a subject, the smaller amount that I can see clearly. Also, when confronted with bright sunlight, or bright white light, my blindness becomes 100% and when looking at an object with different gradients
of one specific color, it all looks the same. In other words if I drop a white bottle cap on a white floor, it totally disappears (lol). This, to the best of my artistic ability, is what my world looks like." -James King
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