Jim Campbell chats with guests at Bloom's Saloon where the artist was holding a party for a test-lighting of his light sculpture atop Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, April 26, 2018. Campbell, a famed electronic artist, is installing the tallest piece of public art on earth, a light sculpture on the top 9 stories of Salesforce Tower downtown. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle
Jim Campbell, a contemporary artist who specializes in works featuring LED lights, has been a De Haro Street resident since 1987. Originally from Illinois, Campbell moved to California in the 1970s, and pursued an engineering career in Silicon Valley for 25 years. According to Campbell, his artistic career emerged during those years, but had its inception when he was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering student. While at MIT Campbell pursued filmmaking and photography as "An outlet from the neuroticism of engineering."
