Frank Campion: Selected Works
Exhibition Dates: April 3 – 27, 2024
Also open for:
Gallery Hop: Friday, April 5, 7-9 pm
Art Crush: Friday, April 19, 7-10 pm
Artist’s reception: Thursday, April 11, 5- 7 pm
farrab, Acrylic on canvas, 48″ x 96″, 2023
Artworks is pleased to announce “Frank Campion: Selected Works,” a special solo exhibit of paintings and works on paper. This exhibition offers both large and small works executed between 2019 and 2023. In a variety of ways, the work explores his interest in the coexistence of chaos and order, the emotional content of color, and the dichotomies that define human nature: our instinct to judge the world and our experiences in an either/or way—good/bad, true/false, right/wrong, etc.
Kakinada, Acrylic on canvas, 72″ x 108”, 2023
Frank Campion started out in life as a successful starving artist in Boston. In the early 1980s, he was represented by the Clark Gallery and enjoyed three successful solo shows there as well as a solo exhibit at Bridgewater State College. He was also included in Boston Art Now, a juried group show at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and again the following year at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Additional group shows include the Sunne Savage Gallery, the Mona Berman Gallery, and Abstract Art in New England at the Danforth Museum. His work is included in both private and corporate collections in New England including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the DeCordova Museum.
After what can only be described as a lover’s quarrel with the art world, Campion put his studio in moth balls and took up a career on the creative side of the advertising business. After several agency jobs in Boston, he was recruited to Long, Haymes & Carr in Winston-Salem in 1989. He retired from this successful career in 2013 and began making art again. In 2016, he completed work on a studio at the back of his home in Clemmons, NC and began in earnest once again to create large abstract paintings on canvas as well as smaller works on paper.
THE IK (HEEK), acrylic on canvas, 46″ x 96″, 2020
Campion has enjoyed solo shows at the Stella G. Contemporary Gallery (Charlotte), Gallery VI (Winston-Salem), Salem College, the Sunset River Gallery (Calabash, NC). He has also been included in juried group shows at the LongView Gallery (Washington, DC), the Greenhill Gallery (Greensboro, NC), the Mark Arts/Mary Koch Gallery (Wichita, KS), and most recently “the future of non-objective art” at the Atlantic Gallery in New York City.
This exhibit is free and open to the public.