Clayton Campbell
Almost Arcadia, 2022
Digital art work on archival paper
Artist's proof
17" x 22"

Artist Statement

Almost Arcadia is one of 25 images from a series of digital art works of the same title that explore our national origins of manifest destiny and environment stewardship of nature. The series revises the Emersonian notion of the North American wilderness as the new Arcadia, by juxtaposing inter-relationships of nature, the spiritual, and the political.

Artist Bio

Campbell is an early innovator with photo based technologies including xerox, photostatic printing, and mail art projects. In 1995 he began to work with the first commercially available digital cameras and photoshop software. His digital art, digital photography, and mixed media photo based projects have been exhibited and collected internationally including the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; WYSPA Institute for Art; Gdansk Poland; International Center of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing; University of Capetown, South Africa; Unit 24 Gallery, London; Nam Jun Paik Center, South Korea; Higher Bridges Arts Center, Enniskellen, Northern Ireland; Museum of Mobile, Alabama; Los Angeles Museum of Art; the Wonder Institute, Santa Fe; Vladem Contemporary Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; The Exploratorium, San Francisco.

Recent projects have been included in The Wrong Bienniale, 2023; Loop Cohort 4 and 6, Miami, 2023; The Eye of Photography, Paris, 2021-2025; Atlas of Affects exhibition at Slought Gallery, Philadelphia, 2022. He currently is collaborating on a new digital art project, Making Our Miracles, with curator Cansu Peker, for the Wrong Bienniale, 2025.

https://claytoncampbell.com

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