Paul Campbell
Reflecting on abstract painting and its place in contemporary society, Paul Campbell explores abstraction's most poetic, frankly beautiful aspects, while opening up the nearly century-old practice to up-to-date, aleatory experiments with wry techniques and an intensely felt rhetoric of painterly process.
Eschewing the politics of "touch" which were the cornerstone of Modernist abstraction, Paul Campbell marks his carefully prepared oil and wax canvases with such every day objects as ten cent string, tennis balls, and remote-control cars, letting the careening traces of paint build up a rich and controlled chaos. "I use just about anything I can to paint with," Campbell has said about his direct, rhythmic, yet extremely fine-tuned method. "It is a way of getting away from my hand to liberate the painting, a combination of a methodological and intuitive painterly approach."