Gallery exhibition
Rebecca Campbell
Romancing the Apocalypse
Rebecca Campbell’s new body of work is a meditation on extremes. Her subjects are drawn from both nature: the ephemeral light of rainbows and the radiance of young girls, and the man-made: the spectacular
light of fireworks and the power of the atomic bomb. As Campbell states, “The paint needed to be fierce,
lean and fresh. I try to understand the atomic blast through heat, light, obliteration and full spectrum doom.
I try to understand the rainbow through the mud it arcs against, suspension of pigment in oil, and a utopia
flickering in and out of cliché. I try to know a woman’s beauty as much from a window through her skin as
from the shine of her mouth.”
