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.

Steve Mizel:
“Color, Movement and Storytelling”

Exhibition Dates: January 28 through February 24, 2024

Also open for:
Gallery Hop: Friday, February 2, 7-9 pm
Artist’s reception: Sunday, February 4, from 3-5 pm; Gallery talk 3:30pm

Moving from the research lab to the art studio—a new exhibition by Steve Mizel opens January 28th at Artworks Gallery in Winston Salem. The exhibition features paintings and will be on display until February 24th.

A reception will be held on February 4th from 3-5 pm and is open to the public. Mizel will give a brief gallery talk at 3:30 pm on the 24th.

“The Great Divide”

In the exhibition titled Color, Movement and Storytelling, Mizel’s paintings range from the fully abstract to intense images of earth and sky. When Mizel paints a sky, he doesn’t paint what a sky looks like, but rather the emotion that it evokes. He hopes that viewers seeing his work will engage in an active conversation with each painting. In so doing, each work becomes much more than simply paint on a surface. In a sense, the painting changes with every viewer and every conversation.

“A New Beginning”

Mizel is an artist based in Lewisville, NC. He is Professor emeritus of Wake Forest University School of Medicine where he served as Chair of Microbiology & Immunology for the first 20 years of his appointment. In his career in biomedical research, Mizel was an internationally recognized immunologist who made major research contributions that not only advanced our understanding of the human immune system, but also catalyzed new therapies in medicine. In 2015, he retired and committed his full energy to making art. His work has been exhibited nationally in juried group exhibitions as well as in Winston Salem at Associated Artists of Winston Salem and Artworks Gallery where he is a juried member.

This exhibit is free and open to the public.

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April 2024 – Frank Campion

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