RLP 1870B, 2018, screen printed oil transfer monoprint on BFK Rives paper 27" x 22"

Dorothea Van Camp has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the University Of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, with graduate studies in printmaking.

She has shown extensively in the northeast and most recently at Hallspace Gallery, Dorchester, MA; 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA; the Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX; Montserrat College of Art, Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Beverly, MA, and the Space Gallery, Denver, CO. Her works on paper are available at Oehme Graphics, Steamboat Springs, CO.

"In Dorothea Van Camp's painting/screenprint hybrids at HallSpace, upholstery, and wallpaper patterns heave, twist, and flutter in unnervingly indeterminate spaces. The designs resound with household familiarity, but how she pushes them insists on tension and change. She evokes rites of passage and the life cycle they usher us through. These paintings hold a lot; of grief, hope and in hope, and grief. The sheer propulsiveness of some patterns keeps the works from feeling sodden or sentimental, removing them from placid domestic interiors like the tornado carrying Dorothy off to Oz - while simultaneously delivering us into the true, true, aching drama of life at home. One plant dies, and another flower. We are wrecked; we are rejuvenated. Life goes on."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/24/arts/where-wallpaper-patterns-become-sheer-drama/

by Cate McQuaid
Art review, The Boston Globe, June 25, 2021

Van Camp's work is included in numerous collections, including; State Street Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of America, Wellesley College, and Mellon Bank.