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| English Out -- Colette Campbell-Jones |
We are thrilled to announce that Stories from Underground by Colette Campbell-Jones will be opening at photo-eye Gallery this Friday June 3rd. Campbell-Jones is photo-eye gallery’s newest represented artist. If you are in Santa Fe please join us for an artist reception from 4-7 pm. This exhibit runs through July 30th.
Stories from Underground, by Colette Campbell-Jones are visual reconstructions of oral histories from the coal miners of South Wales. Campbell-Jones was inspired to retell the stories of this vanishing culture after spending time with her husband’s family in the small town of Ton Pentre.
The underground imagery of the mine is profoundly mythical, an archetype associated with darkness, the unknown and the primordial. Stories From Underground reveal the strange light of a people who have emerged from the mine’s conditions of incommensurable darkness, from the Abyss.
Coal mining, its history as one of the oldest Industrial Revolution cultures and the stories for the miners are manifestation of the Abyss -- embodying the fear of being literally consumed by the earth underground (and its parallel to a more ancient terror of the carnivorous primordial forest lurking deep within the recesses of the psyche) and the frightful economic machinery above. Stories From Underground is a fairy-tale reconstructed from an unbroken lineage of oral histories in the South Wales coalfields. These stories developed over two and a half centuries from the invention of ‘deep shaft’ technology, making cheap energy available on a scale that transformed humanity and created the modern world.
-Colette Campbell-Jones
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| Abyss #3 -- Colette Campbell-Jones |
Campbell-Jones received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. During her senior year she was accepted into the graduate fellowship program at the Headlands Center for the Arts where she continues to work today as an Affiliate Artist. Rapidly gaining recognition, she has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions up and down the west coast. Her most recent exhibit was at the Palo Alto Center for Fine Arts where she installed two forty-foot murals. We exhibited images from Stories From Underground at photo L.A., 2011, but this solo exhibit will be Campbell-Jones’ debut exhibit in Santa Fe, NM.
Also on display will be a selection of new work by Jo Whaley and James Hajicek & Carol Panaro-Smith.
If you have any questions about this exhibit you please contact me at 505-988-5159 x121 or anne@photoeye.com
Thank you!
Anne Kelly
Associate Director