Shawn Camp: Phase Transitions

March 01 - April 30,2024

From LHUCA:

"Phase Transitions is a meditation on the cyclical nature of our collective human experience. It features a series of paintings and an immersive original soundtrack slowly unfolding in a gradually changing environment. Backlit acrylic panels, thickly coated in oil paint and wax, transform over time. Along with the soundscape, the paintings singularize the dichotomy of extremes - of the earth to the heavens, of day into night, of birth into death. The illumination in the gallery space shifts gradually from full light to complete darkness and back again in repeated cycles. In light, the paintings read as topographic imagery – a reference to broad swaths of barren, snowy landscapes from above. In darkness, the physicality of the opaque white paint surrenders to the immateriality of translucent light. The prominent surface of the work is simultaneously a solid wall and an innuendo of expanse, opening fictively beyond. Heightened extremes of light and dark emerge from changing planes sculpted into the surface and time becomes an abstraction.

Shawn Camp grew up in Coeur dʼ Alene, Idaho and completed an MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997. He then set out exploring, art-making, and exhibiting throughout the United States and abroad as an artist and musician. He  settled in Austin, Texas where he is a member of ICOSA Collective and Professor and Assistant Art Department Chair at Austin Community College. His works have been shown in the United States and internationally and are included in numerous public and private collections. He has participated in a number of artist residencies, including the Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland. Shawn’s paintings, videos and sound pieces exploit the effects of context and light on our perception - contrasting the ephemeral nature of awareness with the illusion of constancy."

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