Kris Campbell, born 1971, USA
EDUCATION
2001 MFA, SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NY
1989 BFA, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, PA
1999 BARNES FOUNDATION VISUAL ART PROGRAM
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2020 SEE ME, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2018 IN OUT AND OF, 95 ½ Main Gallery, NY
HONORS & GRANTS
2021 Artist of the Year, Arts Council of Rockland
Arts Council of Rockland Support Fund Reciepient
PODCAST INTERVIEW
2021 ACoR Artist Interview
2020 Stitchery Stories with Susan Weeks
Guest on Radio Kingston
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021 Fiber Arts
SELECTED JURIED SHOWS
2022 Garner Arts Fest, the complete series of #iamCOLOR was shown by the creek
Garner Arts Member show
2021 VOCE/VOICES, Wickham Works, Warwick NY, outdoor group exhibition (6 of IAMCOLOR series)
Yarn, Rope, String, juried international exhibition , Appalachian Center for Craft
Collab Concepts, Brewster, NY, outdoor group exhibition
Rockland Arts Festival Pop Up: unveiling of #iamyellow (and #iampurple)
Pelham Art Happening
Sloatsburg Plein Air Festival
Rockland Arts Festival: demo night
Rockland Arts Festival: PFLAG sponsored artist talk
Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Nyack Art Collective Group Show: online, Valley Cottage Library and Union Arts in Haverstraw
2020 Let There be Light, outdoor art show, Garnerville, NY (3 of IAMCOLOR)
Collab Concepts, outdoor sculpture show, Beacon, NY
Women’s Voices, Arts Council of Rockland, NY
ArtWalk, Nyack NY (cancelled due to pandemic)
Garner Arts member show, Garnerville, NY
Hopper House Member Show, Nyack, NY
Nyack Art Collective Members Show, Casa del Sol, Nyack, NY, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Orangeburg, NY and online
2019 O+ Festival, Kingston, NY
Garnerville studio visits for students, Garnerville, NY
Artwalk, Nyack, NY
95 1/2 Main Gallery, Nyack, NY
Rockland Center for the Arts Pride Benefit, West Nyack, NY
L.A.B. Fest, Garnerville, NY
Rockland Arts Festival, Piermont, NY
Nyack Art Collective Members Show, Casa del Sol, Nyack, NY
ACoR members show, Garnerville, NY
2018 ARTZUU, Garnerville Arts Festival, Garnerville, NY
Nyack Art Collective Member Show, Casa del Sol, Nyack, NY
Combat Paper Exhibit (juried show), Nyack, NY
2017 Incredible Creature, 95 1/2 MAIN GALLERY, Nyack, NY
Nyack Art Collective Member Show, Casa del Sol, Nyack, NY
Piermont Art in the Park, Piermont, NY
How High the Moon, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Guilty Pleasures, Bel-Ans, Orangeburg, NY
Nyack Art Walk, Nyack, NY
Nyack Art Collective Member Show, Casa del Sol, Nyack, NY, O D's, Nyack, NY, Valley Cottage Library, Valley Cottage, NY
Garnerville Artist Member Show, Garnerville, NY
Edward Hopper House Member Show, Nyack, NY
MEMBER SHOWS
2017-2020 Nyack Art Collective
2017-2020 Hopper House
2017-2020 Rockland Center for the Arts
2017-2020 Garner Arts
2019-2020 Arts Council of Rockland
MEMBER OF:
Nyack Art Collective, Board Position, Arts Council of Rockland (ACoR), Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Pelham Art Center, Garnerville Art Center, Modern Museum of Art, Whitney Musuem of Art, NY Botanical Garden
STATEMENT
This is not your grandmother’s needlework.
This is large scale translucent tapestry made with craft yarn on an open weave that’s as big as the trees.
This is Kris Campbell Art.
I create meaningful visual experiences that connect to the soul, time, space and celebrate the human experience. I take a delicate, precise craft and using yarn on screen assemble large works that fill up space, demanding to be seen. The consistent cross stitch throughout creates a smooth surface that highlights the color variation, evoking waves of light and molecular energy. In some places the screen is left bare, allowing for a space beyond the surface of the work, imagining the way a soul searches beyond the skin’s surface.
SHORT BIO
Kris Campbell is an artist that lives and works out of Rockland County, New York who is a contemporary fiber artist that has an MFA from School of Visual Arts, a BA from Lafayette College and studied art theory at the original Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Recently, Kris was named 2021 Visual Artist of the Year for Rockland County, NY.
Color, Surface and Soul are ideas that thread throughout in the work.
The current series being created as a response to lockdown during COVID. The working title is FLOWER CROWN, or the I AM COLOR series, of outdoor work 11 foot square cross stitch tapestries of flowers – each celebrating a different color. VOCE/VOICESwas the first time the series will be seen as intended – as a group to be experienced outside by walking up to, walking around and taking pictures with the pieces.