Statement
My work is inspired by the natural world, my garden, my life and the universe. I like to start paintings freely messing up the surface with strokes, colors, gestures. I paint with my hands, sticks, tubes, knives, brushes, whatever is at my disposal. I use oil, acrylic, enamel, weeds, trash...whatever is outside and inside my studio. I like collecting things. When the painting starts to become alive I try to go with the flow of the paint. I don't try to harness the energy. Some paintings seem to paint themselves while with others, it's a struggle to come to an amicable surface. During the act of making my paintings images seem to ebb and flow; some real, some imagined. My memories do seem to influence their final outcome.
Bio
Jenny La Macchia Campbell hails from Brooklyn, New York. Her expressive colorful paintings sprout from her love of nature, her life and the cosmos. She was born in 1952 and moved to Maine in 1994. She earned an MFA Painting from Hunter College of CUNY in 1986, Studied painting with George McNeil, Mercedes Matter, Frederic Thursz, Estaban Viscente and David Reed at The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture 1982-1984.. She studied Photography at Brooklyn College of CUNY with WWII and D-Day Invasion photographer Walter Rosenblum (mentored by Paul Strand and Lewis Hine) and earned a BS in Art Photography in 1980. She spent the Summer of 1984 at the Vermont Studio Colony where she met and studied painting with Ron Gorchov. 2012-2015 Continuing Studies Maine College of Art. studied with Michel Droge. 2015-Present is a co-founder and member of SEVEN, a collective of Seven Maine abstract artists. Collectively and singularly they exhibit locally and nationally.
She has exhibited her paintings and photographs in Maine and New York. Recent exhibitions include Triangle Gallery, Rockland, ME, Merill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, ME, Soho Renaissance Factory, NY, NY, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demerest, NJ, Frank Brockman Gallery, Brunswick, ME, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME, Yarmouth Historical Society, ME, Zero Station, Portland, ME, The Bakery Photo-a-gogo, Portland ME, Ocean House Gallery, So. Portland, ME and more. She and her husband Doug have, 3 grown sons, 1 dog, 3 cats, 9 chickens, 6 ducks and a beehive. She lives and works in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
©2012-2024 Jenny La Macchia Campbell All Rights Reserved
My work is inspired by the natural world, my garden, my life and the universe. I like to start paintings freely messing up the surface with strokes, colors, gestures. I paint with my hands, sticks, tubes, knives, brushes, whatever is at my disposal. I use oil, acrylic, enamel, weeds, trash...whatever is outside and inside my studio. I like collecting things. When the painting starts to become alive I try to go with the flow of the paint. I don't try to harness the energy. Some paintings seem to paint themselves while with others, it's a struggle to come to an amicable surface. During the act of making my paintings images seem to ebb and flow; some real, some imagined. My memories do seem to influence their final outcome.
Bio
Jenny La Macchia Campbell hails from Brooklyn, New York. Her expressive colorful paintings sprout from her love of nature, her life and the cosmos. She was born in 1952 and moved to Maine in 1994. She earned an MFA Painting from Hunter College of CUNY in 1986, Studied painting with George McNeil, Mercedes Matter, Frederic Thursz, Estaban Viscente and David Reed at The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture 1982-1984.. She studied Photography at Brooklyn College of CUNY with WWII and D-Day Invasion photographer Walter Rosenblum (mentored by Paul Strand and Lewis Hine) and earned a BS in Art Photography in 1980. She spent the Summer of 1984 at the Vermont Studio Colony where she met and studied painting with Ron Gorchov. 2012-2015 Continuing Studies Maine College of Art. studied with Michel Droge. 2015-Present is a co-founder and member of SEVEN, a collective of Seven Maine abstract artists. Collectively and singularly they exhibit locally and nationally.
She has exhibited her paintings and photographs in Maine and New York. Recent exhibitions include Triangle Gallery, Rockland, ME, Merill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, ME, Soho Renaissance Factory, NY, NY, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demerest, NJ, Frank Brockman Gallery, Brunswick, ME, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME, Yarmouth Historical Society, ME, Zero Station, Portland, ME, The Bakery Photo-a-gogo, Portland ME, Ocean House Gallery, So. Portland, ME and more. She and her husband Doug have, 3 grown sons, 1 dog, 3 cats, 9 chickens, 6 ducks and a beehive. She lives and works in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
©2012-2024 Jenny La Macchia Campbell All Rights Reserved