Susan Francis Campbell

Printmaking, Visual / Media

My work is an abstract expressionistic meditation on the natural world, with the intention of increasing awareness of the priceless beauty and interconnections within our environment.

About the Artist

My work has been shown in galleries in Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, New Haven, CT, Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as in various online exhibitions.   I taught visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for sixteen years.    I was the Art Director at both American Film magazine and Américas magazine (Organization of American States) and have produced graphic design work for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sackler Museum of Asian Art, the United States Information Agency, Amtrak,and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, among others.    My drawings, paintings, and collages have appeared in The Washington Review, American Film magazine, Américas magazine, and on the covers of books and records published by Southern Illinois University Press, Story Line Press, The Figures Press, Hanging Loose Press, Coffee House Press, and Green Linnet Music, among others.    I graduated from Vassar College and attended the Corcoran School of Art, where I studied with William Christenberry.            

Susan Francis Campbell website susancampbellarts.com

Artist's Statement

These fine art inkjet prints are created from details of my watercolor and acrylic paintings, which have been digitally modified to create new images. Often, details from different paintings have been layered over each other to create new content. Thus there is a transparency of overlaid images, a creative step away from the original paintings each time the medium changes, a breakdown and reconstruction of the experience of perception. The final print subverts and expands conventional definitions of art, while simultaneously encouraging the viewer to contemplate—to get lost in the moment of seeing. Bold brushwork, a shifting play of light and darkness, and the synergistic interplay of color evolve into a vivid sense ofour environment that invites the viewer to witness the mystery and power of the natural world as well as that of their own unfettered imagination. All of the images are archival fine art inkjet prints on 100% cotton paper in signed and numbered editions of 10.        

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