Timothy Campbell: Bent Season
Take the Mantel is excited to share Bent Season, an exhibition of new work by New York City-based artist Timothy Campbell. A close friend and notable Virgo, his paintings challenge conventional notions of painting with a capital "P", instead becoming dynamic actors within time and space, as opposed to merely static objects on the wall.
In addition to his paintings, Campbell has sent a selection of musical influences to pair with his artwork on the mantel. In the video footage he has prepared for the exhibition, Campbell takes us along for a series of nighttime walks to his studio in East Williamsburg. Along the way, he notes the unanticipated relationships between reel to reel audio recording, drone music, Goya, and his painting practice.
Cart Before Horse
Timothy Campbell Discusses Evening Star by Fripp and Eno
Drones
Timothy Campbell Discusses painting, drone-based music and the inspiration behind his choice of albums for the Mantel
Image Details
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descent replicas XIII (elievem), 2025
acrylic on canvas and fabric over wood panels.
16” x 12” x 5”
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Erosion III (Cydonia), 2023
Acrylic and crushed glass on wood structure, artist’s lamp of corroded aluminum, LED light, epoxy.
Painting dimensions: 18” x 13” x 9”
Installation dimensions (including lamp and shadows): 62” x 48” x 14”
Price on request
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Erosion IV (Rorschach), 2024
Acrylic and crushed glass on wood structure, melted junk food wrappers.
20” x 14” x 5”
Price on request
Timothy’s Shout Outs
We asked Timothy for a list of artists and humans he loves. We hope you enjoy looking at their work as much as we did!
Bio:
Timothy Campbell (born in Brattleboro, VT) is a New York based painter who studied at Skidmore College, American University (MFA), and the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. He has completed residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris), the Wassaic Project (NY), and Woodstock Byrdcliffe (NY), and has shown work in solo exhibitions at Unit B (Baltimore), Longwood University (VA), School 33 (Baltimore), and the Cork Factory (Baltimore), and group exhibitions at venues including Trestle (BK), Outlet (BK), Tompkins Projects (BK), Vox Populi (PA), The Contemporary Artist’s Center (MA), the Katzen Museum (DC), Passenger (Detroit), the Museum of New Art Detroit, and many others. He teaches drawing at Parsons / The New School in NYC.
Artist Statement:
My paintings are heavy, physical, thing-like, and slow in their unfolding. Grotesque yet luminous crusts of pigment are layered to form images that blur the division between abstract and figurative modes. I use paint to sculpturally mimic a range of textures and forms – blighted architecture,subway tunnels, geological erosion, Martian topography and Rudy Giuliani have all figured as recent subjects. These concrete starting points are common, familiar images from which I launch a painting process that is improvisational and intuitive, seeking a final form that is resonant, uncanny, and returns back to themes of the subterranean, collapse, and decay.
Website: www.timothycampbell.info
Instagram: Timothy Campbell