Jim Campbell: Color by Number

Apr 8 - May 20, 2000
Overview

San Francisco-based, MIT-educated Jim Campbell is known for his “conceptually rigorous, poetically inventive and technically masterful” work where digital information and video imagery are the media. In this exhibition of new pieces exploring themes of memory and association, Campbell, for the first time, utilizes color. The pixel, representing the digitization of imagery, is the key to the exhibition. Individually and collectively pixels serve both to reveal and conceal information, as the viewer is forced to rely upon their memory to interpret the work.

Works
  • Jim Campbell, Color by Number, 1998-99
    Jim Campbell, Color by Number, 1998-99
  • Light box depicting average of the scans of he pages from the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    Jim Campbell
    Illuminated Averages 4 (Wuthering Heights Random House 1945), 2000
    lightbox with Duratrans print
    11 x 15 3/4 x 2 inches/27.9 x 40 x 5.1 cm
  • Jim Campbell, Experiments in Touching Color, 1998-2000
    Jim Campbell, Experiments in Touching Color, 1998-2000
  • Jim Campbell, Triptych (Fire/Freeway/Walk), 2000
    Jim Campbell, Triptych (Fire/Freeway/Walk), 2000