NYAB Event - Anthony Campuzano "Local Color"

Anthony Campuzano "Local Color"

Churner and Churner

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Churner and Churner presents “Local Color,” an exhibition by Anthony Campuzano of ten new drawings and the artist’s first film. It is his second solo exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition takes its title from Truman Capote’s Local Color, an early collection of travel essays written in the 1950s and first published in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. According to Capote, these “small truthful impressions” were a precursor to his nonfiction novels like In Cold Blood. They were literary snapshots culled from chatter, headlines, and first-hand experience. Campuzano similarly recodes personal experience, celebrity gossip, and found imagery. In Paul, Doris, Chandi, Jim, Charo, and Imelda (2013), for example, he tells the story of Peewee Herman’s mock wedding to Doris Duke’s adopted daughter through a maze of hand-drawn text.

In each of the works for this exhibition, Campuzano considers questions of doubling and distance, not only by repeating the act of drawing the same image – as in Domestic Cabinet 1 (2013) and Domestic Cabinet 2 (2013), as well as the triptych Everybody Matters (2012) – but also by remaking several key works from his past. He reaches back to some of his earliest projects, including a 1998 “film” made of taped extracts of daily forecasts. Each clipped weather icon, front and back, was shot on 16mm film; the result, Forecast 1998/2013, is a three-minute homage to a past never meant to be saved.

Anthony Campuzano’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia; and White Columns, New York. His recent group exhibitions include “The White Album” (2013), Louis B. James, New York; “HiJack!” (2012), Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; “Off Camera” (2011), Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia; “Drawn to Disaster” (2011), ICA at MECA, Portland, Maine; and “Drawing in the World” (2009), Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Campuzano received his BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. He was a 2009 recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a resident at Ucross in 2011. He recently published Stars: Even the Sun with All Its Warmth Is Detached (Portland: Publication Studio, 2013).

[Image: Anthony Campuzano "Forecast" (1998/2013) 16mm film, color, silent, 2 min 44 sec]

Media

• Drawing
• Film

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