Beth Campbell “Periodic Split” At Country Club Chicago
From the press release:
Country Club is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition for its new Chicago program with Periodic Split, new and recent works by New York based artist and 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, Beth Campbell.
Reverent to a familiar history of art and design in which the mobile is ever-present, Campbell’s constructions nevertheless feel contemporary, occupying space in a way that is both meditative and ominous. They relate to twentieth century modernist art and design in their prioritization of elemental shape and form and their relationship to space, but they also operate as part of Campbell’s drawing practice, which references willfulness and the human decision-making process in the often over-stimulating, easily distracting contemporary world we live in. Campbell’s signature mobiles become a physical articulation of a life engaged — never linear, faced with possibility, but loaded with many potential results and consequences. As seemingly fragile objects, their incandescence is beguiling as the lightness of the structure gives way to a series of very serious metaphysical and ontological implications.
