Barbara Campbell Thomas, "The Bright Hour"
$1200. Collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced & machine-stitched fabric, 13"x10", 2021.
Price does not include shipping. Email info@collarworks.org for shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
My paintings harness geometric abstraction and a materially diverse surface of paint, collage and sewn fabric to explore how the everyday experience of living and being is an arena for spiritual perception. I make paintings to understand facets of reality invisible to the human eye, but perceivable through other senses. Making paintings teaches me what it means to inhabit a living, breathing human body. As my understanding of paint unfolds, through the movement and experience of my body, I see comprehension of painting is analogous to comprehension of being. I see painting as analogous to being. Pathways to comprehension of painting and being are similarly life long, and in both instances, one is engaging with an experience that is simultaneously material and immaterial, with an experience in which the corporeal (paint and the body) is a gateway into the metaphysical.
Artist Bio
Barbara Campbell Thomas’s paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center, the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her most recent body of work was featured in a 2021 solo exhibition at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan, has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center, and in 2021 she was in residence at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency. She is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship. Barbara Campbell Thomas lives and works in Climax, North Carolina. She is an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art at UNC Greensboro.
$1200. Collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced & machine-stitched fabric, 13"x10", 2021.
Price does not include shipping. Email info@collarworks.org for shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
My paintings harness geometric abstraction and a materially diverse surface of paint, collage and sewn fabric to explore how the everyday experience of living and being is an arena for spiritual perception. I make paintings to understand facets of reality invisible to the human eye, but perceivable through other senses. Making paintings teaches me what it means to inhabit a living, breathing human body. As my understanding of paint unfolds, through the movement and experience of my body, I see comprehension of painting is analogous to comprehension of being. I see painting as analogous to being. Pathways to comprehension of painting and being are similarly life long, and in both instances, one is engaging with an experience that is simultaneously material and immaterial, with an experience in which the corporeal (paint and the body) is a gateway into the metaphysical.
Artist Bio
Barbara Campbell Thomas’s paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center, the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her most recent body of work was featured in a 2021 solo exhibition at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan, has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center, and in 2021 she was in residence at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency. She is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship. Barbara Campbell Thomas lives and works in Climax, North Carolina. She is an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art at UNC Greensboro.
$1200. Collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced & machine-stitched fabric, 13"x10", 2021.
Price does not include shipping. Email info@collarworks.org for shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
My paintings harness geometric abstraction and a materially diverse surface of paint, collage and sewn fabric to explore how the everyday experience of living and being is an arena for spiritual perception. I make paintings to understand facets of reality invisible to the human eye, but perceivable through other senses. Making paintings teaches me what it means to inhabit a living, breathing human body. As my understanding of paint unfolds, through the movement and experience of my body, I see comprehension of painting is analogous to comprehension of being. I see painting as analogous to being. Pathways to comprehension of painting and being are similarly life long, and in both instances, one is engaging with an experience that is simultaneously material and immaterial, with an experience in which the corporeal (paint and the body) is a gateway into the metaphysical.
Artist Bio
Barbara Campbell Thomas’s paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center, the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her most recent body of work was featured in a 2021 solo exhibition at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan, has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center, and in 2021 she was in residence at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency. She is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship. Barbara Campbell Thomas lives and works in Climax, North Carolina. She is an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art at UNC Greensboro.