Naomi Andrée Campbell, Maybe this could be, 2020, Watercolor work on paper, 18” x 12”
A WEST WING PROJECT SPACE EXHIBITION
Naomi Andrée Campbell's (b. Montréal) work is known for her conceptual social and political commentary of environmental issues through sense and perception in art and science. Her recent series of watercolor works on paper, focuses on how the pandemic’s continued isolation and confinement have altered our perception of space and time, allowing us to think/see differently. Continually living in the same environment day in and day out, the everyday objects around us whether cups, stacks of books, or our own clothes, begin to conflate with the liminal spaces. These objects achieve new readings while exploring the universal ideas of loss, meaning and memory.
The exhibition title “Penumbra,” originating from the Latin word meaning “almost or nearly,” is associated with the partially lit shadows offered by occluded objects. Here it refers to the new order of past, present and future.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Naomi Andrée Campbell was born in Montreal and is a graduate of Champlain College, Quebec; The Art Students League of New York; B.A. summa cum laude SUNY, New York. She studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York and has won numerous awards including four Gold Medals of Honor. Campbell has exhibited work at institutions throughout the world, including Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan; Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia; Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York; The Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey; MUSE Center for Photography and the Moving Image, New York; Heidi Cho Gallery, New York; and Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York. Her work is featured in public, corporate, and private, permanent collections; of note, MTA Arts for Transit, New York; The New York Public Library, New York; City of Geochang, South Korea; City of Irving, Texas. She has contributed to American Artist, Artscape, and Linea Art Journal. She was reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, Sculpture magazine, and Watercolor Artist, and featured in more than twenty book publications. Campbell has been an instructor at The Art Students League of New York since 2007, where she teaches the contemporary figure in watercolor. Naomi Campbell lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.