ESTABLISHED PARAMETERS
New paintings by Shawn Camp
April 15 through May 15
Gallery Shoal Creek
OPENING RECEPTION - Friday, April 16 / 6 – 8 pm
Established Parameters explores the human need to create order from disorder. For Austin artist Shawn Camp, the marked landscape as seen from above becomes a metaphor for this basic human tendency. His paintings distill the idea of landscape to a...
[read more] ESTABLISHED PARAMETERS
New paintings by Shawn Camp
April 15 through May 15
Gallery Shoal Creek
OPENING RECEPTION - Friday, April 16 / 6 – 8 pm
Established Parameters explores the human need to create order from disorder. For Austin artist Shawn Camp, the marked landscape as seen from above becomes a metaphor for this basic human tendency. His paintings distill the idea of landscape to a textured surface of paint that suggests topographic features and delineates boundaries and navigational markings. The thickly applied paint and pasted text reveal an intersection of the raw, natural environment and the ordered grid that man projects upon it.
This new series of artwork uses subtle color variations and a continuation of imagery across multiple panels to create the sense of a single environment within the space of the gallery. Much of the subtext stems from current events and writings from western religious traditions to reflect society's reliance on intellectual and moral structures to define the parameters of individual freedom.
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SILENCE + REFRAIN / Poetry by Lyman Grant
Thursday, April 22 / 6:30 – 8 pm
Lyman Grant, Dean of Arts & Humanities, Austin Community College, will present a literary response to the visual environment Mr. Camp has created in Established Parameters.
Presented in partnership with Art Alliance Austin for Art Week Austin / April 21 – 25, 2010
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Gallery Shoal Creek
2905 San Gabriel, Suite 101
Austin, Texas 78705
www.galleryshoalcreek.com
tel. 512.454.6671
Gallery hours: Tues-Fri, 11-6; Sat, 11-4
Image: And When Temp-ta-tion's Pow'r is Nigh (detail)
