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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
E. Owens Designs– The Mitchell
Loft Gallery:
(Neo-Portraits): 2006
Pigeon-Stone Project–
Continental Gallery:
(Neo-Portraits and Text)
Dallas, TX: 2006
Janette Kennedy Gallery:
(Signature in Color and B&W)
Dallas, TX: 2006
Austin Local Color Gallery:
(Faces) Austin, TX: 2006
Dawson Spring Museum:
(Paintings and Pastels) ...
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Artist Galleries:
Artifacts: Bowling Green, KY:
1997-99
Sutherland Gallery: Bardstown,
KY: 2002–04
D.O.C.S.: New Orleans, LA:
2002
Heritage Art Center:
Lexington, KY: 2001-03
Stephanie’s Collection
Gallery: Dallas, TX: 2002-03
Gallery on the Square:
Franklin, KY: 2002-06
Lot 916: Bowling Green, KY:
2000-06
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Artist Reviews:
The Amplifier:
Bowling Green, KY: May 2002
interview by Ronnie Jaggers.
THE KABN:
McComb, Mississippi: 2003
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Collections:
Western Kentucky University:
Women's Studies Department, KY
Madisonville Community
College, KY
Dawson Springs Museum, KY
HJ Bott: Houston, Texas based
visual artist
David and Kim Jones: Bowling
Green, Kentucky based visual
artists
Artist Thornton: Thornton
Foundation
Warren Weitman: Chairman of
Sotheby's North and South
America...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Todd Camplin
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My work is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s writings on
naming and the signature. Derrida describes the
signature as being an event or honest moment that
happens without any forethought. Following from
this description, I began exploring the signature
as subject latter. I started with covering my
apartment walls with my own signature, and then
I had a friend write her signature on a wall as
I documented the work. I began painting people's
signatures, and finally I began creating the print
series. The audio recording of the print also came
from Derrida’s idea of "The Ear of the Other. "We
hear words, deconstruct the information and then
we interpret what we hear. I record a person’s
voice, the computer interprets the voice, and
I print the image.
Signature: A handwritten signature of the subject
(repeated and placed into patterns) and an audio
recording of the subject saying his/her name, then
edited on the computer and the printed on Dibond.
The signature and the voice are like fingerprints.
A portrait is a work of art that portrays an
individual uniqueness. These works are portraits
and thus they are named after the subject.
Text: I take text and abstract the words in
images. Sometimes I pull the text back out of
the image. Other times I create texts that stay
abstracts. I use words and phrases from popular
media and from personal messages. I pick words
at random from a dictionary and many times I pick
words that have a personal meaning to me. Words
have always been a mystery to me. I read some
words backwards, I drop prefixes and suffixes
to words when I am reading, plus I read a few
letters backwards. I want to crack to code of
words and at the same time help others
experience text the way I perceive text, a
mystified abstract.
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