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Selected Works of Fred Camper's Via Appia

Andrew Rosinski — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:12:42 +0000

For more information on Fred Camper’s Via Appia series, or if you’re interested in purchasing a work, visit this link.

Colors 1: Transitions, 24 through 1, by Fred Camper

Andrew Rosinski — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:07:41 +0000

by Fred Camper

Artist Statement: The first two parts of this group of works consist of of 43.7 X 57.2 inch prints, each consisting of a 16-by-16 grid of 256 rectangles of solid colors, with a very thin white line (about .008 inches) between each. They look their best in the actual prints. (In some of the 256 rectangles, the upper side looks different from the lower, but this is an optical illusion.) Each print shows a gradual transition in 255 steps from one color to another, using the almost invisibly fine gradations of digital imaging. The first 24 in the series, each in an edition of 12, show the transitions between white, black, and the primary and secondary colors. The second part of this group shows transitions between colors selected using random numbers and their approximate complements. These are issued in unique editions of one, and I will make up to 120 different ones. Each print in the third part of this group, the “Near Grays,” is 29.7 X 38.5 inches, consisting of a five-by-five grid of 25 rectangles. and is a unique edition of one.

Because most ink and paper combinations have a more limited color gamut than is theoretically possible in digital imaging, some of the solid color or very dark areas may show almost no change within a row or two. I decided to leave these in rather than restricting the colors to only those that my inks can render accurately, because part of the point of this series is to reveal the nature of the particular digital printing used in my work. The color grids, seen in relation to my prints of photographs, are meant to show the underlying “materials” out of which the photos are printed. They also have, I hope, a greater generality than images of actual objects, creating a kind of open field for the viewer’s imagination.

Each print can be hung “rightside-up” or “upside-down,” and is signed twice on the back to indicate this. These alternate hangings help reveal the arbitrariness of all human constructions, whether of images or of colors.

— Fred Camper

More:

Fred Camper Website

Colors 1: Transitions 1 through 24

http://www.fredcamper.com/A/

The Art of Fred Camper: Camper Art in Showing Chicago, NYC, and Paris

Andrew Rosinski — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:21:46 +0000

Permutations 4: The Tower, All Views 13 (2008), by Fred Camper

Fred Camper is a writer. Fred Camper is a lecturer on avant-garde film and art. Fred Camper is the Stan Brakhage expert. Fred Camper makes art. Fred Camper is an artist.

Fred Camper certainly is a Chicago-based artist, and lecturer and writer on film and art, who has spoken on film in the US and overseas and has taught at several colleges and universities. Camper’s work will be showing, starting today, in Chicago (details below) and in soon New York City (details will be posted soon).

Chicago
21-23 May 2010
Friday, 21 May: 6 PM – 10pm
Saturday, 22 May: noon – 6pm
Sunday, 23 May: noon – 5pm
at David Leonardis Gallery
Continuing ’till the end of May.

Fred Camper’s art is coming to a city near you, and Fred Camper cordially invites you to join:

I invite you to look at my recent art … If you’re in the Chicago area, my building is having an Open Studios Weekend May 21-23: Friday, May 21, 6 PM to 10 PM; Saturday, May 22, noon to 6 PM; and Sunday, May 23, noon to 5 PM. Go to 1200 West 35th Street; the entrance is via a parking lot off of the west side of Racine just north of 35th. Alternatively, you are encouraged to schedule a private visit. Also, some of the works of “Quarry 1: Times Square” are on view at David Leonardis Gallery in Chicago at least through the end of May.

If you’re in the New York City area, I will be there with new work approximately May 24-June 5. My first solo New York show, of digital prints from the “Figments” and “Venues” groups, will open at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on September 10, and continue through October 9. The exhibit will be held in Gallery F/V & P, Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, 3rd Floor; 200 Willoughby Avenue; Brooklyn, New York (Directions). Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM, and the opening reception is Thursday, September 10, 5 PM to 7 PM.

PERMUTATIONS 1, REUSS RIVER, 3.2 24 X 22 INCHES, INCLUDING A 3 INCH BORDER ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINT ON ARCHIVAL PAPER

Fred Camper on Fred Camper: I am an artist, and a writer and lecturer on film, art, and photography, who lives in Chicago. I have written on cinema for most of my life, have taught at several colleges and universities, have been an art critic and arts journalist since 1989, and have been working on the art I am now showing, digital prints of multiple photographs, since 2002. By my mid-teens, I was interested in math, physics, poetry, classical music, and cinema, mostly American avant-garde film (Brakhage, Markopoulos, Rice) and classical Hollywood (Hitchcock, Hawks).

By 17, I was trying to make my own films, and was writing my earliest film criticism. By my early 20s I had completed five 16mm films, and by 1984 had made a version of SN. By then my film ideas had grown impossibly ambitious in comparison to my resources, while I had already, for other reasons, been thinking about combining multiple still photographs in ways that would be somewhat cinematic, something I continued to think about for two decades. Then, in 2002, I started taking digital photos. I first began completing art works using them in 2005, and began exhibiting in September, 2007. This art work has become my principal focus, and now feels like the work I was meant to do for my whole life. There’s a longer autobiography on my site. My studio is in the East Bank Storage Building.