Jim Campbell

Scattered 12x (Women's March on Washington)

2017

Text by Terence Sharpe There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...

Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...

CICA Vancouver is proud to release this brand new limited edition sculpture, in collaboration with Hajime Sorayama Studio and Nanzuka. This sculpture is a miniature version of the “Untitled_Sexy Robot_Space traveler” sculpture by Hajime Sorayama. LIMITED EDITION 2023 ED: 300 + AP: 50 ABS, alloy, kirsite, aluminum alloy, acrylic, PP, TPE, LED Work size (H x W x D): 15.75 x 8.5 x 8.25 in Package size (H x W x D): 25.2 x 13.4 x 12.2 in Weight:  33lb Authentication ZHEN. authentication system is equipped in the item as an initiative to prevent forgery of the product. For the verification, the purchaser needs to agree to share one’s personal information with ZHEN. for authentication purposes. The purchaser’s information will never be sold nor transferred. ZHEN. is an art authentication platform that makes authentication and provenance radically transparent. Powered by blockchain, ZHEN. guarantees the authenticity of the purchased artwork with a simple tap via ZHEN. mobile app. Instructions on how to use ZHEN. is included in the package. To learn more about ZHEN., please read the Privacy Policy...

Text by Terence Sharpe There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...

"Saint Vitus Architeuthis Manalishi with the Seven Tentacle Crown" by Hunter Stabler is an original ink and graphite on hand-cut paper layered piece mounted to plexiglass. The piece ships in the pictured wood frame and measures 44"h x 44"w. Hunter Stabler was born in Jefferson City, Missouri and was raised in upstate South Carolina. He received a BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Art at Louisiana State University. His work has been widely exhibited across the United States and internationally including exhibitions at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, NY, The Shelburne Art Museum in Shelburne, VT, the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, and the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY. His hand-cut paper artwork has been published in the books High Touch: Tactile Design and Visual Explorations, Push Paper, Strangers in the Nest (a book of Poems by Anselm Berrigan, Letterpress printed with images accompanying each poem), and published in Laminate Magazine, First Look Magazine, and American Craft Magazine. He was named “Philadelphia’s Next Hot Artist...

Charlie Paynter Viking Ship Mixed Media, Found Objects, Metal, Plex, Leather, Wood Year: 2015 Size: 16x19x11in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 24802-1746 Tags: Playful, Bottle Opener, Plex, Sailor, Outsider Art, corky, airy, breezy, buoyant, debonair, jaunty Charlie Paynter was born in Kansas City in 1938, graduated from Paseo High School. He was employed at the Kansas City Star for 55 years, where he worked in the mailing room...