BMoCA AT MACKY | Terry Campbell: No Longer In My Hands

April 6–May 27, 2012

TERRY CAMPBELL: NO LONGER IN MY HANDS

BMoCA AT MACKY

BMoCA AT MACKY is a new collaboration between Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and The Andrew J. Macky Gallery, located in the foyer of the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder. This series of exhibitions is curated by BMoCA as an extension to its rotating exhibition schedule. Exhibitions take place at The Macky Gallery on the CU campus.

The first edition of BMoCA AT MACKY presents the large-scale figurative paintings of Denver artist Terry Campbell. This exhibition is curated by BMoCA and will be on view at The Macky Gallery from April 6 to May 27, 2012.

Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm and to ticketed patrons during Macky Auditorium performances and events.

Macky Auditorium is located at the intersection of 17th Street and University Avenue in Boulder on the CU campus. To chart driving directions online, use the address 17th Street and University Avenue.

For more information visit macky.colorado.edu/andrew-j-macky-gallery.

TERRY CAMPBELL: NO LONGER IN MY HANDS
Terry Campbell tells of personal experiences and impressions through large-scale figurative paintings. Executed in natural muted hues on vast canvases, their presence induces a sense of somber unease. Although often depicting his friends or relatives, the artist regards these works as self-portraits, documenting his own emotions and memories of specific situations.

The characters are set to navigate austere interiors and barren landscapes of an undefined yet specific time and place, tinted with nostalgia. Here, every aspect takes on symbolic meaning – from the people’s pensive expressions and stationary postures, to the dress or costume they are wearing, their position towards objects and each other, and even the implied place the observer assumes in relation to them. But as the meaning of these details is never fully revealed, viewers are drawn to conceive and insert their own narratives.

Terry Campbell was born in 1982. He lives in Denver and teaches art at Colorow Elementary School in Littleton, Colorado. He holds a Bachelor of Art Education and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver (2005). Campbell is a member of Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver and a Resident Artist at RedLine Denver, where he exhibits regularly. In 2007 he curated the exhibition He Did What? of works by Harry C. Walters at Rhinoceropolis, Denver.

Image: Terry Campbell, In the End I Hope There’s More, 2012, oil on canvas