Vivid Art Gallery First Friday Art Opening

Vivid Art Gallery will be hosting an art opening for May Featured Artist Amie Campbell on Friday, May 3^rd. The opening will run from 5-7 PM, is open to all and is free of charge. 
 
Campbell will be presenting her latest work in her exhibit “Pictures” during the month of May. Campbell is a Bloomington, IN artist whose abstract paintings are characterized by many layers of color and intricate, lively brushwork. According to Campbell, she uses color in a dialogue with the canvas, with a result that evokes the play of light on plants and objects. Says Campbell, “A lot of times I’ll just start with a bold smear of color and it’s like opening a book. You start something on the canvas and then you figure out what’s next. If you’re into the moment, it really just flows from there. The color tells you something, you tell it something back and then it’s like a conversation.” Her influences include the Post-Impressionist painters Pierre Bonnard and Paul Gauguin, as well as Claude Monet’s water lily paintings.
 
Featuring her trademark brilliant colors, Campbell’s work reflects the beauty and splendor she sees in the rolling hills surrounding her studio in southern Indiana. Describing the relationship between nature and her work, she says, “Paintings illuminate my perceptions of the natural world, one moment in time and represented with paint on canvas.” Her colors, all of them mixed according to her own special “recipes,” are seasonal and change based on the light and weather. She also makes great use of glazes, which add transparency to her colors in an effect that mimics light. According to Campbell, it is the glazes that make her paintings come alive. She often works in diptychs and triptychs to evoke the idea of painted screens.
 
Please stop by the gallery during the month of May to see this unique new work.