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Jim Campbell
Closer to Nothing, 14 December 2019 - 25 January 2020
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Jim Campbell: Closer to Nothing

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Jim Campbell, Closer to Nothing

With light as his primary medium, Jim Campbell probes the liminal boundaries of perception. Utilizing devices and techniques he has developed over the last nineteen years, his newest body of work exploits extreme data deficiency as a means of engaging primal pathways of comprehension. Each piece, effectively incomplete without viewer participation, resolves itself only through the brain’s capacity to extrapolate meaning from a paucity of information.

 

The exhibition will include work that incorporates imagery from Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking human and animal motion studies from the late 1800s. Before the advent of the movie camera, Muybridge devised a method of sequential still photographs to capture aspects of bodily motion undetectable by the human eye. Campbell inverts this concept to test the limits of discernment by breaking down Muybridge’s images into minimal data with continual variations in magnification.

 

Campbell’s custom electronics hijack technologies developed for information transfer and storage to examine human perception and memory. Navigating the threshold between the analog and the digital, his work activates an experience of neurological alchemy whereby data transforms into knowledge.

 

Jim Campbell (b. 1956, Chicago) has degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT and he holds nearly twenty patents in the field of video image processing. His work is currently on view at The Anderson Collection at Stanford, thoughtfully curated within the context their permanent collection of post-war American masterpieces. That exhibition will be on view through August 3, 2020. His 2018 public art commission, Day for Night, is a permanent installation that spans the exterior nine stories above the 62nd floor of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.

 

Campbell’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum; San Jose Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and the Denver Art Museum. In 2012 he was the recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 13th Annual Bay Area Treasure Award. Previous honors include a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Award in Multimedia, three Langlois Foundation Grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award.

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Works
  • Jim Campbell Reconstructed Memory (variation), 2019 custom electronics, 300 LEDs, cast resin screen 17 x 22 x 6 in 43.2 x 55.9 x 15.2 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Reconstructed Memory (variation), 2019
    custom electronics, 300 LEDs, cast resin screen
    17 x 22 x 6 in
    43.2 x 55.9 x 15.2 cm
  • Jim Campbell Edition 27 (Women’s March), 2018 custom electronics, 384 LEDs, treated plexiglas 15 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 2 7/8 in 39.4 x 57.8 x 7.3 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Edition 27 (Women’s March), 2018
    custom electronics, 384 LEDs, treated plexiglas
    15 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 2 7/8 in
    39.4 x 57.8 x 7.3 cm
  • Jim Campbell Against the Tide, 2019 custom electronics, aluminum, 54 LEDs 31 x 37 x 4 in 78.7 x 94 x 10.2 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Against the Tide, 2019
    custom electronics, aluminum, 54 LEDs
    31 x 37 x 4 in
    78.7 x 94 x 10.2 cm
  • Jim Campbell Rhythm Studies (studies), 2019 custom electronics, 3,456 LEDs, treated plexiglas installation and dimensions variable 72 x 112 x 1/2 inches/182.9 x 284.5 x 1.3 cm, as installed
    Jim Campbell
    Rhythm Studies (studies), 2019
    custom electronics, 3,456 LEDs, treated plexiglas
    installation and dimensions variable
    72 x 112 x 1/2 inches/182.9 x 284.5 x 1.3 cm, as installed
  • Jim Campbell Southern California, 2019 custom electronics, 1,920 LEDs, treated plexiglas 24 x 72 in 61 x 182.9 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Southern California, 2019
    custom electronics, 1,920 LEDs, treated plexiglas
    24 x 72 in
    61 x 182.9 cm
  • Jim Campbell Blue Swimmers, 2018 custom electronics, 600 LEDs, treated plexiglas 23 1/2 x 34 x 2 1/2 in 59.7 x 86.4 x 6.3 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Blue Swimmers, 2018
    custom electronics, 600 LEDs, treated plexiglas
    23 1/2 x 34 x 2 1/2 in
    59.7 x 86.4 x 6.3 cm
  • Jim Campbell Temple at Yunnan (variation), 2019 custom electronics, 768 LEDs, treated plexiglas 23 x 29 7/8 x 3 in 58.4 x 75.9 x 7.6 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Temple at Yunnan (variation), 2019
    custom electronics, 768 LEDs, treated plexiglas
    23 x 29 7/8 x 3 in
    58.4 x 75.9 x 7.6 cm
  • Jim Campbell Vertical Repixelated, 2019 custom electronics, 1,008 LEDs, frosted acrylic 42 3/4 x 71 1/2 x 6 in 108.6 x 181.6 x 15.2 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Vertical Repixelated, 2019
    custom electronics, 1,008 LEDs, frosted acrylic
    42 3/4 x 71 1/2 x 6 in
    108.6 x 181.6 x 15.2 cm
Press
  • Jim Campbell, "Vertical Repixelated," 2019

    Jim Campbell @ Hosfelt

    George Philip LeBourdais, Squarecylinder, January 6, 2020

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  • a moving image of cars and other motor vehicles crossing through an intersection

    Jim Campbell

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