The Delicate Breakdown, 18x18 inches, acrylic on wood.
Read MoreStrictly Abstraction - the inaugural show at The Art Galleries at Austin Community College
I’m part of this 4-person show that kicks off the brand new state-of-the-art gallery space at the Highland Campus. The show opens November 6th and is partnered with the 2021 Austin Studio Tour. Strictly Abstraction runs through February. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the Austin area!
For information, see https://admc.austincc.edu/art/gallery/
2021: ICOSA, Fort Worth, Baton Rouge, Rockport, Corpus Christi, Lubbock,Lockhart and San Antonio
It’s been a crazy year of shows!
A peek into my studio - as part of the 2020 Austin Studio Tour
Glasstire's Five-Minute Tours
Check out the mini video tours presented by Glasstire.com for Comity of Ghosts and Echoes and Spaces!
Comity of Ghosts at ICOSA Gallery
For my second two-person exhibition at ICOSA Gallery I worked with Darcie Book to create Comity of Ghosts, a show blending video, installation, sculpture, and painting. Here’s a review by Wayne Alan Brenner for the Austin Chronicle:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2020-10-16/shawn-camp-and-darcie-book-comity-of-ghosts/
Third Coast Biennial
This summer my work was a part of the Third Coast Biennial at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Grayduck Gallery Artsy Site
I’m now included in Graduck Gallery’s artsy site - have a look!
Completed Commission of Backlit ceiling installation piece
The end of 2019 brought to completion a long-term project for a residence in South Austin. Anshar is an installation of backlit acrylic panels into the entire ceiling of an upstairs room. Here are a couple images of the work! Photography by @ddbailie. Thanks to Camiba Art and Vince and Dara Prothro!
Echoes and Spaces
Echoes and Spaces, New Paintings by Shawn Camp and Lana Waldrep-Appl
Exhibition Dates: February 28, 2020 – March 28, 2020
Opening Reception: Friday, February 28, 7-10 pm
Open Canopy: Friday, March 6, 7-10 pm
We walk around in a world filled with little moments of clarity amongst a dense fog of existence. Tiny bits of connection, something that feels like déjà vu, arise and form echoes in our experiences.
In Echoes and Spaces, Lana Waldrep-Appl and Shawn Camp explore the feelings of the sublime that happen in those moments when you allow yourself to completely reside inside of the space you are in. These paintings feel like daydreaming, an activity that takes place primarily when doing nothing. Both artists are interested in exploring the something-ness of nothing. Camp makes paintings of air and space; imagery devoid of solid forms. That nothingness is framed through subtle geometric divisions and contradictory hints of color. Through translucence and refraction, the shimmering surfaces convey a sense of atmosphere and explore the mystery of light, matter, and space. Waldrep-Appl makes paintings of nothing spaces—places of waiting, landscapes that drone by during a commute, visual white noise, the places between places where things happen. These spaces are never flat. A gray is never just gray. Varied chromatic grays, near whites, and unanticipated pastels invite viewers to see there is more to these ignorable spaces.
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6 pm or by appointment
For appointments: email info@icosacollective.com, or call 512-920-2062
ICOSA Collective Gallery
916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #102
Austin, TX 78702
www.icosacollective.com
icosacollective@gmail.com
Disrupted Geometries
Disrupted Geometries, a 4-person show at Sarofim Gallery at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX runs from Feb 1 to March 8.
https://www.southwestern.edu/live/events/14507-art-exhibition-disrupted-geometries
Busy year
This year has been crazy with a large scale commission I’ve been working on since May (I’ll post some photos once it’s installed!) I also joined ICOSA Collective in the spring (https://www.icosacollective.com/)
Along with ICOSA shows in Los Angeles and Minneapolis I was included in the Solo Show Down exhibition at the Fort Worth Art Center. Currently, many of my new works on paper are in the St. Edwards University Flat File Exhibition. I also have work on view in the Texas State University visiting faculty show at University of Texas, Tyler.
I’ll once again be participating in the East Austin Studio Tour at my own studio this year - it’s been quite a while since I’ve hosted it here (http://east.bigmedium.org/) That runs from November 16th through the 24th. If you’re in Austin, stop by and say hello!