Beth Campbell
Beth Campbell
Workspace Program Resident 2003
Shortly after completing her MFA, Campbell began working on a series of text-based drawings for several years, all titled My Potential Future Based on Present Circumstances and catalogued by date. The handwritten flow charts begin with one life event and branch out to subsequent events in exponential fashion, the whole of which is a complicated mix of actual and hypothetical, plausible and implausible life occurrences. This stream of consciousness examines various possible outcomes in her everyday life.
Always a thoughtful and zany exploration of self, Campbell's work explores one's ever-changing self-image. Others of Campbell's works explore the notion of self (particularly herself) through its inextricable links to material objects. In her work at Dieu Donné, Campbell has been collaborating with Studio Director, Megan Moorhouse to create watermarked still-lives of make-up and other toiletries. The works utilize "puffy" fabric paint watermarks combined with pulp painting, resulting in multi-layered images that belies their technique and are realistic in effect. Her hand-drawn watermarked lines integrate with her freehand pulp painting to create imagery in a manner that is simultaneously fluid and defined. The production lead to a 30x40 inch diptych entitled Dualities 1 & 2 as well as a series of unique pieces both large and small.
In the Studio
About the Artist
Beth Campbell (b. 1971, Illinois) received her BFA from Truman State University in 1993 and a MFA from Ohio University in 1997. She has also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Campbell currently lives and works in New York and is represented by Kate Werbler Gallery.
Campbell’s commissioned projects include Following Room at the Whitney Museum of Art (2007) and Following Room (Trento) at Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy (2008); Potential Store Fronts for the Public Art Fund, New York (2007). Recent solo exhibitions include Seomi Gallery, South Korea; Country Club, Chicago; The Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH; Country Club Projects at the Buck House, Los Angeles, and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. Other museum exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, White Columns, the Drawing Room, London, and the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs NY. Her work is included in collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2011), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Memorial Fellowship (2009); and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2006). She has been an artist-in-residence at John Michael Kohler Arts Center (2009); the Lower East Side Printshop (2006); and Dieu Donné (2003), among others. (Source: Artist’s Website)
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