Brian Scott Campbell
Gallery Affiliations: DUTTON Gallery
Region: West
Website: http://www.brianscottcampbell.com
City / State: Denton, TX
I make black and white drawings on paper. These images feature
blunt forms in unsteady compositions. The figures depicted move
freely between public space and private moments; they sweat, cry,
feverishly run out of the frame, work in the studio, play hockey,
or jot down letters. Each moment, whether the figure is in agony
or gleeful delusion, is fraught with conflicted emotion or divided
attention. The community of characters are individualized by
their anatomical distortions, exaggerated proportions, awkward
personal expression, and possibly by hidden, buried emotions
and intentions. The figures exude puckish confidence, with their
disproportionate legginess and casual, deadpan clumsiness.
The wild, unwieldy movements and transgressions of the subject
are trapped for the gaze of an unseen viewer.

