Daniela Campins: In the Middle of This Frase
Daniela Campins: In the Middle of This Frase Sept 15th - Oct 20th 2017
Part of the 2017 SUR: biennial
Opening reception Friday, September 15th, 7-10 PM Gallery hours Sat and Sun 1-5 PM and Friday, Oct 20th, 1-5 PM
Press release Essay by Jason Ramos
In the Middle of This Frase, like its title, is a multi-lingual play on unexpected relations – relations between the languages of image and text, representation and abstraction, writing and drawing. In Campins' series of paintings, low relief linear marks evoke cursive writing and sit atop textured, palimpsest/pentimento grounds. Notions of the written word and its process are conjured while uncoded images are simultaneously asserted when marks become clouds, sky, and mountains, and profound illusions of layered space are beheld. Every drawing/writing action in Campins’ work is met with and amplified by a conscious painterly response, be it color, materiality, or texture.
Daniela Campins was born in Leeds, England and grew up in Venezuela since the age of two. After moving to Southern California Daniela earned her Bachelors of Fine Art in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach and her Masters of Fine Arts at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 2011 she was awarded the VCU arts Painting and Printmaking Fountainhead Arts Fellowship. She has been included in exhibitions at The Torrance Museum of Art, Boom: Los Angeles, GLAMFA, New Wight Gallery in UCLA, Atkinson Gallery at the Santa Barbara City College, the Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Art (CA), Reynolds Gallery in Richmond (VA), Art Platform—Los Angeles, and the Rheeway Gallerie (CA).
About SUR: biennial: Independently-curated exhibitions showcase recent and newly-comissioned works of local and international artists who have been influenced by the cultures and artistic traditions of Mexico, Central & South America, and the Carribean. Founded in 2011, the SUR:biennial seeks to explore the complex notions of globalization and exchange that take place in the ambiguous geographical, cultural, and artistic borderlands between Los Angeles and the broader "South."
