October 12 - November 16, 2019
“These small-scale flashe on canvas works depict abstracted landscapes populated by trees, mountains, rolling farmland, and bodies of water. The works are primarily in grayscale and punctuated by dashes of flat color. The thinly textured paint and loose chalky black outlines create a sense of play and movement to an otherwise motionless scene. The paintings revive familiar motifs of landscape, but the results are unhinged and distinguished by personal iconography and bold child-like abstraction. Campbell utilizes the conventions of pictorial space to push form, line, and surface to create collision-like exchanges of symbols and shapes. Campbell allows humor to surface while also deftly holding it in check, taking a jab at the sublime, and permitting something sober, emblematic, and deeply human to emerge. Seen together Campbell’s paintings unfold like portals or stage sets taken from an elevated view of a secret world. These images suggest an evolving yet fragmentary narrative, a story with no distinct time of day or night, a fictional domain manifested by the act and materiality of painting.”
Opening: October 12, 2019 | 6–8 pm
Kirk Hopper Fine Art (Commerce St.)
3008 Commerce
Dallas, 75226 Texas
214-760-9230
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