2025, oil on canvas, 96 × 84 in.
2025, oil on canvas, 96 × 84 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 80 x 120 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 96 x 144 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 120 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 80 x 106 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in.
2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.
2023, oil and gold leaf on panel, 20 x 16 in.
2023, oil and gold leaf on panel, 16 x 16 in.
2023, oil and gold leaf on panel, 16 x 12 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
2023, oil on panel, 24 x 18 in.
2023, oil on panel, 16 x 16 in.
2023, oil on panel, 16 x 12 in.
2023 , oil and gold leaf on panel, 16 x 16 in.
2022, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in.
2022, oil on panel, 24 x 18 in.
2022, oil and gold leaf on panel, 6 x 4 in.
2022, oil and gold leaf on panel, 20 x 16 in.
2022, oil bar and gold leaf on panel, 20 x 16 in.
2023 , oil bar and gold leaf on panel, 20 x 20 in.
2021 , oil on canvas, 73 1/4 x 43 in.
2021 , oil on canvas, 36 x 43 in.
2022, oil on panel, 8 x 10 in.
2022, oil on panel, 8 x 10 in.
2021 , oil on canvas, 60 x 110 in.
2021 , oil on canvas, 60 x 110 in.
2021 , oil on canvas, 60 x 110 in.
2021 , oil on canvas, 60 x 110 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in.
2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 in.
2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 in.
2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 in.
2021, oil on board, 60 x 32 in.
2021, oil on board, 60 x 32 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.
2020, oil on panel, 24 x 36 in.
2020, oil on panel, 24 x 36 in.
2020, oil on board, 10 x 8 in.
2020, oil on board, 10 x 8 in.
2020, oil on panel, 24 x 20 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 24 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 24 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 48 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 48 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 24 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 24 in.
2021, oil on board, 36 x 24 in.
2021, oil and gold leaf on panel
2021, oil and gold leaf on panel
2021, oil and gold leaf on panel
2021, oil and copper leaf on panel
2021, oil and copper leaf on panel
2021, oil and gold leaf on panel
2019, oil on canvas, 67 x 101 1/2 in.
2019, oil on canvas, 67 x 101 1/2 in.
2019, oil on canvas, 67 x 101 1/2 in.
2019, oil on canvas, 67 x 101 1/2 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 75 x 51 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 75 x 51 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 75 x 51 in.
2019, oil on canvas, 75 x 51 in.
2019, oil on canvas, 75 x 51 in.
2019, oil on canvas, 75 x 51 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in.
2018, oil on board, 36 x 48 in.
2018, oil on board, 36 x 48 in.
2018, oil on board, 36 x 48 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 88 x 109 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 88 x 109 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 88 x 109 in.
2020, oil on canvas, 88 x 109 in.
2019, oil on board, 30 x 30 in.
2019, oil on board, 18 x 24 in.
2019, oil on board, 18 x 24 in.
2017 Mixed media Installation
silk, wool, copper, cement, sound, film projection, variable dimentions
2017 Mixed Media Installation
silk, wool, copper, cement, sound, film projection, variable dimensions
2017, silk, cotton, steel
oil on canvas, 2016, 72" x 156"
2016, oil on canvas, 72" x 156"
2016, oil on canvas, 72" x 156"
2016, oil on canvas, 84" x 65"
2016, oil on canvas, 60" x 60"
L.A. Louver is proud to present an exhibition by artist Rebecca Campbell that features a new series of portraits, all of woman artists.
Motivated by the lack of gender equity in the creative world, and in homage to the artists who inspire her, Campbell began her You are Here project in Fall 2015. The first 19 paintings were exhibited at L.A. Louver January 13 –February 13, 2016.
“I am not interested in making photographic portraits; I don’t sort people out by what they make; I just choose people who are serious, diligent, hard working, and good at what they do.”
– Rebecca Campbell
Campbell makes each painting with the same dimensions (30 x 22 1⁄2 in. [76.2 x 56.5 cm]), using paper that she primes with a custom pink acrylic paint. She then employs a limited palette of black, white, and gray to build the portrait. Although she approaches each work with identical parameters, Campbell imbues each portrait with a unique sense of identity, capturing their likeness with bold and gestural brushstrokes. Each sitter meets the gaze of the viewer, with her strengths and vulnerabilities candidly conveyed. Beyond subject matter, these works are a celebration of painting itself, and the quality of imagery that can only be brought forth with paint and brush. As Campbell states, “I believe deeply in process being content.”
The women painters, sculptors, writers and performers Campbell depicts include: Amy Adler, Sarah Awad, Linda Besemer, Heather Brown, Kristin Calabrese, Kyung Sun Cho, Natalia Fabia, Carlee Fernandez, Patricia Fernandez, Samantha Fields, Alexandra Grant, Lia Halloran, Annie Lapin, Gwynn Murrill, Susan Silton, Anne-Elizabeth Sobieski, Jennifer Steinkamp, Mpambo Wina, and Eve Wood.
New paintings under construction. Check back for updates.
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2015, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2018, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2017, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2017, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
2016, acrylic on paper, 30" x 22"
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
Rebecca Campbell, LA Louver, 2016
2013, oil on canvas, 65" x 90"
2013, oil on canvas, 65" x 90"
2013, oil on canvas, 65" x 90"
2013, oil on canvas, 65" x 90"
2014, oil on canvas, 108" x 38"
2014, oil on canvas, 108" x 38"
2014, oil on canvas, 108" x 38"
2013, oil on board, 36" x 36"
2014, oil on canvas, 108" x 69 1/2"
2014, oil on canvas, 60" x 88"
2013, oil on board, 18" x 24"
2014, oil on board, 36" x 24"
2013, oil on board, 36" x 24"
2014, oil on board, 33" x 40"
2013, oil on board, 36" x 24"
2013, oil on board, 20" x 16"
2013, oil on board, 16" x 16"
2014, oil on board, 20" x 16"
2013, oil on board, 24" x 18"
2014, oil on board, 12" x 12"
2014, oil on board, 11" x 14"
2014, oil on board, 14" x 11"
2014, oil on board, 14" x 11"
2013, oil on canvas, 12" x 38"
2013, oil on canvas, 12" x 29"
2013, oil on canvas, 12" x 33"
2013, oil on canvas, 12" x 41"
2014, oil on canvas, 12" x 33"
2013, oil on canvas, 12" x 29"
2014, oil on canvas, 12" x 33"
2013, oil on canvas, 12" x 39"
2014, oil on canvas, 12" x 33"
2016, Glass, Windex, Water, Tin, Wood, Video Projection, Dimensions Variable
2016, Glass, Windex, Water, Tin, Wood, Video Projection, Dimensions Variable
2014, peaches, sugar, water, glass, tin plated steel, 28" x 30" x 30"
2014, peaches, sugar, water, tin plated steel. 28" x 30" x 30"
2014, peaches, sugar, water, glass, tin plated steel, 28" x 30" x 30"
2016, Graphite, Glitter, Resin, Mirror, Dimensions Variable
2016, Graphite, Glitter, Resin, Mirror, Dimensions Variable
2012, oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
2012, oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
2012, oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
2012, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2012, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2011, oil on canvas, 78" x 76"
2011, oil on canvas, 78" x 84"
2011, oil on canvas, 60" x 98 1/2"
2011, oil on canvas, 96" x 72"
2011, oil on canvas, 74 1/4" x 60"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 29"
2011, oil on canvas, 29" x 48"
2011, oil on canvas, 29" x 48"
2011, oil on canvas, 29" x 48"
Romancing the Apocalypse
Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2011
"Rebecca Campbell’s new paintings are looser and juicier and far more beautiful than anything she has made since she began exhibiting her haunting works in Los Angeles 10 years ago. They’re also stranger and scarier than anything else being made today — despite, and because of, their generally benign subjects: pretty girls, gorgeous rainbows and sublime fireworks.
Titled “Romancing the Apocalypse,” Campbell’s smoldering show at L.A. Louver turns melodrama into a whiplash-inducing collision with pleasures whose intensity is driven to a feverish pitch because they are fleeting — there for the moment and then gone forever.
Rather than illustrating this Romantic idea in over-dramatized images of fateful events, Campbell boils it down to the basics: the way she lays paint down on canvas, with just the right mix of bull’s-eye precision and forget-it abandon.
Whether painting rainbows, fireworks or mushroom clouds, the real drama is played out in Campbell’s brushstrokes. Emotionally loaded stories unfold as the brush’s bristles are dragged this way and that. Single strokes often start out as gooey gobs of inchoate matter before quickly segueing into deliberate gestures, only to dissipate into messy meltdowns of mixed tints, flattened volumes, lost textures and, ultimately, bare-canvas emptiness. Whistler’s jaw-dropping nocturnes come to mind but do not overshadow the freewheeling fluidity and existential weight of Campbell’s drop-dead paint handling.
Her pictures of girls and women, all lost in thought and more or less oblivious to their surroundings, add sexual tension to the proceedings. Innocence and vulnerability take fleshy form as Campbell manages to make regret and contentment palpable.
All but two of her paintings are small, no bigger than 12-by-20-inches. Their size is belied by their visual power, which packs a wallop and doesn’t stop.
Her 7-by-5-foot “Epidemic” and 4-by-8-foot “Romancing the Apocalypse” are show-stopping knockouts. Each depicts a solitary woman in an unsettling scenario and gives Campbell ample space to strut her painterly stuff. You feel the drama of her works in your gut, where the conflict between holding everything together and just letting go matters most.
-- David Pagel"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 24"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 20"
2010, oil on canvas, 16" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 12" x 6"
2010, oil on canvas, 20" x 12"
2010, oil on canvas, 84" x 60"
2010, oil on canvas, 48" x 96"
2010, oil on canvas, 48" x 62"
2010, oil on canvas, 72" x 64 1/2"
2009, oil on canvas, 36" x 27"
2009, oil on canvas, 36" x 27"
2009, oil on canvas, 36' x 43'
2009, oil on canvas, 36" x 27"
2009, oil on canvas, 36" x 44 1/2"
2009, oil on board, 36" x 20 1/4"
2009, oil on canvas, 36" x 69"
2009, oil on canvas, 36" x 31"
2009, oil on canvas, 18" x 18"
2009, oil on canvas, 18" x 18"
2009, oil on canvas, 18" x 18"
2009, oil on canvas, 18" x 18"
Poltergeist
Merriam-Webster defines nostalgia as a combination of the Greek root nostos meaning "return home" and the Old English genesan meaning "to survive." In my body of work Poltergeist I explore the often sentimentalized and disregarded significance of this experience. In exploring aspects of childhood, memory, and nostalgia I hope to address nostalgia's disruptive effects on linear time and to propose that this phenomenon might be considered under the rubric of an archetypically feminine sublime, as an underestimated strategy for finding meaning in the face of loss and death. For example when a person is having an acute experience of nostalgia, time collapses and the past, the present and the future become one. A nostalgic moment for me might be triggered by a memory of walking through the forest behind my house when I was five but that memory then triggers others, dancing to Boys Don't Cry while drinking black label beer at the Liberty Park, cutting lavender for the dinner table yesterday afternoon and ultimately a sense of the loss of experiences I have yet to have. Time becomes nonlinear and it's both sad and sweet at the same time. Nostalgia somehow enables us to sing along to the tune of our own deaths.
In this work I'm also concerned with the connections and distance between the theoretical and the physical. Inspired by Barthes premise in Pleasure of the Text that "Whence, perhaps, a means of evaluating the works of our modernity: their value would proceed from their duplicity. By which it must be understood that they always have two edges. The subversive edge may seem privileged because it is the edge of violence; but it is not violence which affects pleasure, nor is it destruction which interests it; what pleasure wants is the site of loss, the seam, the cut, the deflation, the dissolve which seizes the subject in the midst of bliss." I am creating works that seek out the seam between ideas and their performance. In specific, theoretical notions of nostalgia, time, and the sublime are considered through physical acts of making paintings, installations, sculptures and films creating documents of these connections and distances. The works of art become artifacts of ideas being processed through experiences and the inevitable distortion that occurs between these ideas and their practice.
Practically speaking, I circumscribe "the midst of bliss" by choosing signs, materials and techniques that give forms to the premise. One notion I am interested in is landscape. The sign I have chosen to represent this with is the tree. Perspectives on nature, wildness and space are examined by animating the tree in various media and interpretive techniques including monumental gestural painting, documentary film footage and life size sculptural construction. The content also unfolds through investment in metaphoric materials. My interest in the nostalgia's transgressive effect on linear time is expressed through the juxtaposition of materials that connote particular and disparate time periods and cultural pedigrees. These materials include, oil paint on canvas, bronze, copper, shag carpet, acrylic paint on drywall, velvet, glass, Windex, etc. The amalgam of these textures allows me to embody my ideas about time without reducing them to a didactic argument. The resonance is one faceted with the familiarity of the body and the fiction of the mind. Marguerite Duras describes these phenomena as "Dreams of another time when the same thing that is going to happen would happen differently. In another way. A thousand times. Everywhere. Elsewhere. Among others, thousands of others who, like ourselves, dream of this time, necessarily. This dream contaminates me."
Rebecca Campbell
2009, Installation photography
2009, Installation photography
2009, Installation photography
2009, oil on wood, 7 1/4" x 71 1/2"
2008, oil on panel, each small 2 3/8" x 4" each large 2 3/8" x 8 1/2"
2008, oil on panel, each small 2 3/8" x 4" each large 2 3/8" x 8 1/2"
2009, tree: avocado tree, steel, velvet, and fiberglass; birds: Windex, glass, and bronze; overall: 13' x 16 ' x 18'
2009, tree: avocado tree, steel, velvet, and fiberglass; birds: Windex, glass, and bronze; overall: 13' x 16 ' x 18'
2009, tree: avocado tree, steel, velvet, and fiberglass; birds: Windex, glass, and bronze; overall: 13' x 16 ' x 18'
2008, walnut veneered plywood, nickel pated steel string, copper, 48" x 130"
2008, walnut veneered plywood, nickel pated steel string, copper, 48" x 130"
2008, walnut veneered plywood, nickel pated steel string, copper, 48" x 130"
2009, Installation Photography
2009, Installation Photography
2008, oil on canvas, 96" x 72"
2009, wood; cast chromed bronze; glass; DVD; table: 39 1/2" x 59 x 44 1/2"; chair: 36" x 18" x 21 1/2"; cake on plate: diam: 13"; H: 4 1/2"; rug: 120" x 84"; window: 40" x 30 1/2"
2009, wood; cast chromed bronze; glass; DVD; table: 39 1/2" x 59 x 44 1/2"; chair: 36" x 18" x 21 1/2"; cake on plate: diam: 13"; H: 4 1/2"; rug: 120" x 84"; window: 40" x 30 1/2"
2009, wood; cast chromed bronze; glass; DVD; table: 39 1/2" x 59 x 44 1/2"; chair: 36" x 18" x 21 1/2"; cake on plate: diam: 13"; H: 4 1/2"; rug: 120" x 84"; window: 40" x 30 1/2"
2009, wood; cast chromed bronze, glass; DVD; table: 39 1/2" x 59 x 44 1/2"; chair: 36" x 18" x 21 1/2"; cake on plate: diam: 13"; H: 4 1/2"; rug: 120" x 84"; window: 40" x 30 1/2"
2009, wood; cast chromed bronze; glass; DVD; table: 39 1/2" x 59 x 44 1/2"; chair: 36" x 18" x 21 1/2"; cake on plate: diam: 13"; H: 4 1/2"; rug: 120" x 84"; window: 40" x 30 1/2"
2008, metal; paint; books, clock, 42" x 23 1/4" x 4"
2008, metal; paint; books, clock, 42" x 23 1/4" x 4"
2008, metal; paint; books, clock, 42" x 23 1/4" x 4"
2008, metal; paint; books, clock, 42" x 23 1/4" x 4"
2009, (Maria), oil on canvas, 82 1/2" x 44 1/2", (Rebecca),oil on canvas, 82 1/2" x 44 1/2"
2009, (Rebecca), oil on canvas, 82 1/2" x 44 1/2", (Maria),oil on canvas, 82 1/2" x 44 1/2"
2009, (Maria), oil on canvas, 82 1/2" x 44 1/2", (Rebecca),oil on canvas, 82 1/2" x 44 1/2"
2008, oil on canvas, 90" x 67"
2008, oil on canvas, 90" x 74"
2009, oil on canvas, 108" x 39"
2008, oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
2008, oil on canvas, 48" x 53"
2008, piano keys, 28 1/2" x 48" x 2"
2009, piano keys, 11 1/4" x 13 1/2" x 3 1/2"
2007, oil on canvas, 100 1/2" x 84"
2007, oil on canvas, 78" x 78"
2007, oil on canvas and board, dimensions variable
2007, oil on canvas, 102" x 76 1/2"
2007, Installation Photo
2007, Installation Photo
2007, oil on canvas
2007, oil on board
2007, oil on board
2007, oil on board
2007, oil on board
2007, oil on board
2006, oil on canvas, 102" x 123"
2006, oil on canvas, 90" x 120"
2006, oil on canvas
2006, oil on canvas
2006, oil on canvas, 48" x 64 1/2"
2006, oil on canvas
2006, oil on canvas
2006, oil on canvas
2006, oil on canvas
2006, acrylic on painted paper
2006, acrylic on painted paper
2006, acrylic on painted paper
2006, acrylic on painted paper
Installation photography
Rebecca Campbell: Crush
9 September - 8 October 2005
Installation photography
Rebecca Campbell: Crush
9 September - 8 October 2005
Installation photography
Rebecca Campbell: Crush
9 September - 8 October 2005
2005, oil on canvas, 96" x 144"
2005, oil on canvas, 8' x 12 1/2'
2005, oil on canvas, 84" x 96"
2005, oil on canvas, 96" x 60"
2005, oil on canvas
84" x 72"
2004, oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
2004, oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
2004, oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
2004, oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
2004, oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
2005, oil on canvas
2005, oil on canvas
2005, oil on canvas
2005, oil on canvas, 48" x 30"
2005, acrylic on painted paper
2003, oil on canvas, 48" x 60"
2003 , oil on canvas , 78" x 129"
2003, oil on canvas, 72" x 84"
2003 , oil on canvas , 45" x 60"
2004, oil on canvas, 48" x 63"
2004, oil on canvas, 96" x 108"
2002 , oil on canvas , 108" x 84"
2002 , oil on canvas , 72" x 144"
2002, oil on canvas, 108" x 54"
2002, oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
2002, oil on canvas, 72" x 108"
2002, oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
2002, oil on canvas, 108" x 36"
2002, oil on canvas, 96" x 144"
2002 , oil on canvas , 36" x 24"
2002, oil on canvas, 72" x 108"
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