LOUIS CAMERON Adjunct Instructor "Mountain Dew," spray enamel on puzzle on wood panel, 19.5" x 26.5", 2004-5 (courtesy of I-20 gallery) (click on image for larger view) Louis Cameron's artworks address how color is codified within consumer and mass culture. In Cameron's paintings color is extracted from its original context on product packaging and placed in the readymade structure of jigsaw puzzles. Sometimes this process is carried out through paintings of color bars (the square or circular markings found on the hidden flaps of product boxes use to calibrate color when printing). These paintings address the relationship between minimal aesthetics and consumer culture. Another query into consumer product identity is explored through collages made by cutting the product packaging into grids and randomly recombining them. The collages force us to reassemble the original image from our memory of familiar images. Cameron's project addresses how color informs and influences our perceptions and interactions with our environment. Since earning an MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in 1997, Cameron has participated in the Artist-In-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has had solo exhibitions at I-20 gallery, New York (2005, 2003), Art in General, New York (2003), and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2004). His work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2003, 2001); the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2004); the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (2000); and internationally at Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (2004), and M'ARS Gallery, Moscow (2005). He is currently represented by I-20 gallery, New York. Cameron has taught at the University of Southern California, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Brooklyn College. He teaches Advanced Drawing/Drawing I. | BACK |