Rhythms of Perception
Best known for his evocative low-resolution works, San Francisco based artist Jim Campbell will present his first solo museum exhibition in New York.
An innovator in the use of technology, Campbell integrates and manipulates computers and custom electronics into visually arresting artworks. His background in electrical engineering allows him to bring his expertise to the works he creates. As an engineer he holds more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing.
The survey exhibition, ‘Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception’, features more than 20 works that span Campbell’s 30-year career. Early experimental film, interactive artworks and low-resolution videos are presented alongside large-scale sculptural installations.
The rarely shown Last Day in the Beginning of March (2003) will be on display. This piece features 26 suspended light bulbs and a soundscape that evokes the last day in the life of the artist’s brother. Another key highlight of the exhibition is the premiere of Self Portrait of Jim Campbell (with Disturbances) (2014).
“Like Rembrandt, Campbell is a master with light, a portraitist for this age,” said Steve Dietz, Guest Curator of the exhibition. “Campbell’s work is fascinating for the rigor of his process, using his sophisticated technological facility to restlessly explore a series of problems that are grounded in the physiology of perception but which ultimately escape into a rhythmic world of wonder.”
‘Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception’ is on display at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA until Sunday 15 June 2014.
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