July 5, 2014

SALON/Big Bang: Crystal Z Campbell at Magazijn

 SALON/Big Bang: Crystal Z Campbell at Magazijn



Crystal Z Campbell, False Positives.

Read more about these drawings HERE


About: Crystal Z Campbell (b. 1980, Prince George’s County, MD) attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, received an MA in Africana Studies from the University at Albany and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. Her work has been exhibited at ICA-Philadelphia, Fondazione Ratti, Studio Museum in Harlem, New Children’s Museum of San Diego, Wave Hill Garden and Cultural Center, Project Row Houses, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Harvestworks, Galleria Artericambi and de Appel Arts Centre among others.

In 2014, Campbell will be a Sommerakademie fellow at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. Campbell was a Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum of Art’s Independent Study Program and recently finished a two-year residency at the Rijkakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she currently lives and works.

SALON/Big Bang; MaryMe-JimmyPaul at the Oude Kerk

SALON/Big Bang; MaryMe-JimmyPaul at the Oude Kerk
(photocredits; JW Kaldenbach)
SALON/Big Bang; MaryMe-JimmyPaul at the Oude Kerk

MaryMe-JimmyPaul works with the area that exists between art and fashion. Taking inspiration from their own created stories, worlds, people and view on the current (and past) pop culture, they show fashion in a different way.

Constantly pushing the boundaries of shape, textures and colors, they raise eyebrows with their big, sculptural works that not only provide a surprising look, but also evoke a feeling. This feeling, or emotion, is one of the most important factors in the works of MaryMe-JimmyPaul. It explains to the viewer what the collection is about and what the label stands for at that particular time.

With the help of different disciplines from the art and fashion world, MaryMe-JimmyPaul takes the viewer into the beautiful, eerie, humorous, bizarre, grandiose fantasy fashion world of MaryMe-JimmyPaul, through its unique presentation. The end result is an explosion in the face, like a Bugs Bunny cartoon.