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K. L. CAMPBELL
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AIRCO CARAVAN
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New York artist K L Campbell’s work challenges the viewer with unexpected emo-tional force. Her sub-jects exist in a liquid, or cosmic, space. Of course, there’s also much activity in what we often call ‘negative space’. With apparent brush
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Airco Caravan’s richly saturated works of political irreverence, pop iconography and bold color shroud deeply provocative questions. Caravan’s aesthetic echoes decades of tradition in post-War-holian pop art, further mutating, swapping and fusing elements of her subjects to engineer bittersweet and coquettishly sardonic attacks on government figures, pop stars
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strokes that create lovely textures, Campbell is ever-present. The negative space roils, is filled with tumult that builds tension with the dominant figure. The open form of her work and the figures’ ambiguity lends an introspective tone to the compositions. At times, figures seem to rise from their backgrounds as one might emerge from the depths of a body of water, or perhaps they recede from whence they came. Regardless, one feels the raw chaos of emotion reach out from the canvas itself.
Campbell studied painting in Spain at Barcelona’s Escola Llotja, and has exhibited her work extensively in New York and internationally. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Website: www.klcampbell.com
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and corporate powers. The mixed media choices she employs as canvases for her screen prints and stock craft materials subvert many of their original purposes, using children’s patterns for blankets and curtains as backdrops and borders surrounding seedy figures clothed with religious and political messages. Her subtly blended imagery both invites aesthetic satisfaction tonally and compositionally, yet hangs its grievances prominently against the powers she chal-lenges.Airco Caravan lives and works in Amsterdam, where she has exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum and Hype Gallery, among other venues. Her work has appeared internationally from New York City to Tokyo and been featured on the TV show “Homes by Design” on HGTV and Bravo. |
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