Hosfelt Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • about
  • Fairs
  • Events
  • Press
  • News
  • Climate Action
  • Magazine
Wishlist
0

Favorites

This artwork has been saved in your favorites list. You can either review your list and make an inquiry, or continue to browse and find other artworks.
View favorites
Continue browsing
Menu
Jim Campbell
Tilted Plane, 14 December 2013 - 25 January 2014
  • Current
  • Archive

Jim Campbell: Tilted Plane

Archive exhibition
  • Overview
  • Works
  • Installation Views
  • Press
Overview
Jim Campbell, Tilted Plane

Jim Campbell (b. 1956, Chicago) presents Tilted Plane — a room-sized installation that tests the boundary between abstraction and representation and explores the perception and interpretation of our experiences.

 

Physically and technologically, Campbell has been investigating the concept of ‘exploding’ two-dimensional, digital imagery into three dimensions for several years. Exploded View (4 Films), which hung in the atrium of SFMOMA in 2012 (and is now part of their collection), Exploded View (Cowboys), commissioned in 2013 by the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, and Scattered Light installed in Madison Square Park, New York (2010-11) are recent examples. In Tilted Plane, Campbell extends the concept further by expanding the distance between each light source, enabling viewers to physically enter the piece, while also significantly reducing the amount of data generating the illusion of moving imagery.

 

Hundreds of incandescent bulbs, with filaments replaced with LEDs, hang at varying levels, creating a tilted plane of flickering light. From one corner, a person can view the piece from ‘above,’ while from the opposite corner, one sees the piece from ‘below.’ A viewer can even step into the piece and move within the hanging bulbs, experiencing the ‘image’ from any point, direction, or angle. The flickering lights suggest images that hover on the edges of perception. While the movement is too fragmented to be fully resolved visually, the rhythms eventually become recognizable. Slowly, peripherally, one can actually observe the evolution of perception.

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 is in the collections of major museums including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, LACMA, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Art. His numerous public commissions include the San Diego airport, Madison Square Park in New York, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, and the new San Francisco central subway in Union Square. In 2012 he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and SFMOMA’s Bay Area Treasure Award.

Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Works
  • Campbell12 13 1024X683
    Open larger version of image
    Inquire
  • Still image of multiple spread out white LEDs mounted at the ends of wires and placed inside incandescent bulbs hang at different lengths to form an even tilted plane The light from the LEDs causes a reflection onto the floor of the darkened room and a scene of birds flying is displayed
    Jim Campbell
    Tilted Plane, 2011
    256 LED light bulbs and custom electronics
    variable dimensions
Installation Views
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Campbell12 13 1024X683
Press
  • Jim Campbell, "Tilted Plane," 2011, installation view

    World-Renowned Artist Unveils First UK Solo Show in Dundee

    Joe Birchenall, STV Dundee, November 25, 2014
  • Gideon Rubin. Pool Reflection, 2013. Oil on canvas. 28 x 29 7/8 in

    Gideon Rubin’s ‘On the Road’ and Jim Campbell’s ‘Tilted Plane’ at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

    SFAQ, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, January 9, 2014
  • Jim Campbell, "Tilted Plane," 2011, detail view

    Jim Campbell Takes Over an SF Gallery with Fluttering LEDs

    Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, January 1, 2014

Related artist

  • Jim Campbell

    Jim Campbell

Back to exhibitions
Location

260 Utah Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

 

Gallery Hours

Tu, W, F & Sa: 10am–5:30pm

Th: 11am–7pm
Closed Sun & Mon

Contact

(415) 495-5454

General Inquiries

Sales Inquiries

We do not accept artist submissions.

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
LinkedIn, opens in a new tab.
Artnet, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
View on Google Maps
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2025 Hosfelt Gallery
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences

Your shopping bag

This purchase may be subject to local rates of import, sales and use taxes for which the purchaser is 100% liable.
No items found
Total
$
Checkout now
Close

Your Favorites

Create a list of works then send us an inquiry.
No items found
Items in list
Send us an inquiry
Share with a friend