Beth Campbell

Known for her drawings, sculpture, and architectural interventions, Beth Campbell creates works that challenge the notion of a physical world beyond our perception. Drawing upon philosophy, phenomenology and psychology, Campbell choreographs spaces, crafts uncanny objects, and maps thought.

In Campbell’s installations and recent sculpture, what appears at first glance to be a facsimile of the everyday will reveal startling complexity: Forms repeat and stutter. Mirrors become portals.  Interiority is externalized.  The familiar becomes strange. Precisely staged tableaux such as Following Room (2007) confound viewers’ expectations through the careful orchestration of repetition and difference.  With works such as Elsewhere (2010) or the Lamps series (2010-ongoing), Campbell collapses the distance between a recognizable world of banal objects and a multiplicity of alternate realities.