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Jim Campbell
New Work, 7 May - 19 June 2010
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Jim Campbell, New Work

Jim Campbell makes innovative works that have set standards for art made with technology for more than twenty years. Campbell’s media and message are inseparable. He uses technologies developed for information transfer and storage to explore human perception, memory and the ways we measure time.

 

In signature works, pixilated representations involving grids of L.E.D.s have such low perceived resolution as to defy comprehension. Through these Campbell plumbs the human ability to interpret abstract information and “fill in the gaps” necessary to create a complete idea. His exploration of the distinction between the analogue world and its digital representation is a metaphor for the human talent for poetic understanding or “knowledge” as opposed to the mathematics of “data.”

 

His seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery will include an “exploded” L.E.D. work – the precursor to a piece that will be exhibited in the atrium of SFMoMA in 2011 – in which the lighted pixels creating imagery are arranged in three-dimensional space rather than on a flat plane. Campbell will also create a large-scale piece in which the pixels are turned away from the viewer to reflect off the wall, and several works in which still photographic images are combined with time-based imagery.

 

Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San Francisco. He received degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978. He transitioned from filmmaking to interactive video installations in the mid-1980s and has been working with L.E.D. technology since 1999. His work has been exhibited extensively internationally and is in the collections of MoMA, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and many others. Beginning in October 2010, a large-scale outdoor piece will be exhibited in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.

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Works
  • Still image of rectangular piece with multiple LEDs behind blurred photographic image mounted on Plexiglass that displays a scene of people moving about in Grand Central Terminal in New York City
    Jim Campbell
    Fundamental Interval (Commuters), 2010
    duratrans on plexiglas, 1728 LEDs, custom electronics
    33 x 44 x 2 inches/83.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm
  • Still image of a rectangular piece with multiple white LEDs behind Plexiglass display asynchronous scenes of pixelated shadowy people walking around Grand Central Terminal in New York City
    Jim Campbell
    Grand Central Station 4, 2010
    1728 LEDs, Plexiglas, custom electronics
    33 x 44 x 2 inches/83.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm
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  • Still image of rectangular piece with multiple LEDs behind photographic image of floor of Grand Central Terminal in New York City mounted on Plexiglass The LEDs display shadowy images of people walking back and forth
    Jim Campbell
    Grand Central Station 5, 2010
    1728 LEDs, duratrans on plexiglas, custom electronics
    33 x 44 x 2 inches/83.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm
  • Still image of multiple hanging white single plane LED strips which project light onto the wall behind them to create blurry scenes of landscapes as seen from the window of a taxi
    Jim Campbell
    Taxi Ride to Sarah's Studio, 2010
    LEDs, wire, custom electronics
    105 x 154 x 15 inches
    266.7 x 391.2 x 38.1 cms
  • Still image of multiple hanging white LEDs in incandescent bulbs The LEDs exploded out in three dimensions and display a scene of flying birds
    Jim Campbell
    Exploded View (Birds), 2010
    1152 LEDs, custom electronics
    46.5 x 72 x 38 inches
    118.1 x 182.9 x 96.5 cms
  • Still image of rectangular piece with white LEDs behind photographic image of a store front mounted on Plexiglass The LEDs display shadowy images of people walking back and forth in front of into and out of the store
    Jim Campbell
    Untitled (Store Front), 2010
    custom electronics, 768 LEDs, Duratrans, treated Plexiglas
    22 ¼ x 29 1/2 x 2 inches
Press
  • "Exploded Views" (2011) LED lights and custom electronics by JIm Campbell

    Campbell’s Dance of Light and Darkness

    Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2011
  • Jim Campbell, "Fundamental Interval (Waves)," 2010, installation view

    Interview

    Julie Henson, Daily Serving, June 14, 2010
  • Jim Campbell, "Fundamental Interval (Commuters)," 2010

    ‘New Work’ review

    Matt Stromberg, Art Practical, June 2, 2010
  • "Grand Central Station 4" (2010) LEDs, Duratrans on Plexiglas and custom electronics by Jim Campbell 33" x 44" x 2"

    window‘Jim Campbell’s Breakthrough LED Art’

    Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2010

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