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Jim Campbell
Wandering, 7 May - 11 June 2022
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Jim Campbell, "Drift," 2022, 1728 LEDs, plexiglas, paper, custom electronics, 44 x 33 x 2 inches
Jim Campbell, "Drift," 2022, 1728 LEDs, plexiglas, paper, custom electronics, 44 x 33 x 2 inches

For nearly three decades, Jim Campbell has designed and built custom electronics, hijacking tech developed for information transfer and storage and repurposing it to make artworks that explore the limits of human perception.

 

The pieces in this show of new work should, in theory, defy comprehension. They are either so low resolution (too little information) or so high resolution (too much information) that the viewer should be completely confounded.  But Campbell plumbs our primal ability to subconsciously interpret information and "fill in the gaps" necessary for us to identify objects and create a complete concept.  His exploration of the distinction between the analogue world and its digital representation is a metaphor for the difference between poetic understanding or "knowledge" versus the mathematics of "data." 

 

Through constantly-evolving experimentation, Campbell parses one of the most fundamental questions about the human mind: what enables us to interpret and understand the world around us?

 

Opening reception for the artist:  Saturday May 7, 3 - 5 pm

 

Jim Campbell's work has been exhibited internationally and in America in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The International Center for Photography, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum.  Honors include a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Award in Multimedia, three Langlois Foundation Grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award. He has two Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT and as an engineer holds nearly twenty patents in the field of video image processing. His 2018 piece, Day for Night, is a permanent LED installation that comprises the top nine floors of the 61-story Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.

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Works
  • Jim Campbell Transition, 2022 custom electronics, 768 LEDs, treated plexiglass 23 x 30 x 2 3/4 in 58.4 x 76.2 x 7 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Transition, 2022
    custom electronics, 768 LEDs, treated plexiglass
    23 x 30 x 2 3/4 in
    58.4 x 76.2 x 7 cm
  • Jim Campbell Exploded Flat Grid, 2022 custom electronics, 54 LEDs, aluminum 26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 4 1/2 in 67.9 x 76.8 x 11.4 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Exploded Flat Grid, 2022
    custom electronics, 54 LEDs, aluminum
    26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 4 1/2 in
    67.9 x 76.8 x 11.4 cm
  • Jim Campbell Repixelated Grid, 2022 custom electronics, 54 LEDs, frosted acrylic, aluminum 26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 5 1/2 in 67.9 x 76.8 x 14 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Repixelated Grid, 2022
    custom electronics, 54 LEDs, frosted acrylic, aluminum
    26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 5 1/2 in
    67.9 x 76.8 x 14 cm
  • Jim Campbell Exploded Flat Random, 2022 custom electronics, 54 LEDs, aluminum 26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 4 1/2 in 67.9 x 76.8 x 11.4 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Exploded Flat Random, 2022
    custom electronics, 54 LEDs, aluminum
    26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 4 1/2 in
    67.9 x 76.8 x 11.4 cm
  • Jim Campbell Repixelated Random, 2022 custom electronics, 54 LEDs, frosted acrylic, aluminum 26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 5 1/2 in 67.9 x 76.8 x 14 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Repixelated Random, 2022
    custom electronics, 54 LEDs, frosted acrylic, aluminum
    26 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 5 1/2 in
    67.9 x 76.8 x 14 cm
  • Jim Campbell Drift, 2022 custom electronics, 1,728 LEDs, treated plexiglas, Kozo MM-2 33 x 44 x 2 in 83.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Drift, 2022
    custom electronics, 1,728 LEDs, treated plexiglas, Kozo MM-2
    33 x 44 x 2 in
    83.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm
  • Jim Campbell Moving Average #1 (Hitchcock's Psycho), 2022 single channel video duration: 1:46:00
    Jim Campbell
    Moving Average #1 (Hitchcock's Psycho), 2022
    single channel video
    duration: 1:46:00
  • Jim Campbell Moving Average #3 (Hitchcock's North by Northwest), 2022 single channel video duration: 2:12:26
    Jim Campbell
    Moving Average #3 (Hitchcock's North by Northwest), 2022
    single channel video
    duration: 2:12:26
  • Jim Campbell Moving Average #2 (Fellini's 8 1/2), 2022 single channel video duration: 2:15:40
    Jim Campbell
    Moving Average #2 (Fellini's 8 1/2), 2022
    single channel video
    duration: 2:15:40
  • Jim Campbell Moving Average (Ocean Layers), 2022 single channel video duration: 15:00
    Jim Campbell
    Moving Average (Ocean Layers), 2022
    single channel video
    duration: 15:00
  • Jim Campbell Buried Thought #2, 2022 custom electronics, 600 LEDs, mounted Duratrans and Kozo MM-2 diffusion screen 22 5/8 x 33 1/8 x 2 1/4 in 57.5 x 84.1 x 5.7 cm
    Jim Campbell
    Buried Thought #2, 2022
    custom electronics, 600 LEDs, mounted Duratrans and Kozo MM-2 diffusion screen
    22 5/8 x 33 1/8 x 2 1/4 in
    57.5 x 84.1 x 5.7 cm
  • Moving image of a wave.
    Jim Campbell
    Edition 28 (Surf), 2021
    custom electronics, 384 LEDs, treated plexiglass
    15 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 2 7/8 in
    39.4 x 57.8 x 7.3 cm
  • Jim Campbell Accumulated Psycho, 2004 single channel video duration: 1:46:00
    Jim Campbell
    Accumulated Psycho, 2004
    single channel video
    duration: 1:46:00
Events
  • A headshot of Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Andrea Nitsche-Krupp.

    Exhibition Tour with SFMOMA Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp

    21 May 2022
  • Exhibition Tour with Cantor Center for Visual Arts Curator Maggie Dethloff

    26 May 2022

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