THOMAS CAMPBELL, UGLY CASANOVA

this is THOMAS CAMPBELL:

"THOMAS CAMPBELL is a self-taught painter, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. He spends most of his time traversing the globe on surf trips, making films and shooting photographs, but maintains a small painting studio in Santa Cruz, California. Campbell’s artworks combine scribbles and scriptures, taking slogans and anecdotes from his unique vocabulary and juxtaposing them with a profound look at human nature. His movement-oriented paintings are as layered with meaning as they are with paint. The works, typically composed of several panels, are free-flowing with wide expressionist swipes of color, bold graphics and intricate renderings of characters and text. His photographs mimic the intensity of the paintings, yet in a more abstract fashion. Black and white documentary works are grouped with images of blurred, vibrant details of life. Campbell has mounted solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Morocco. In 1999, he completed his first feature length surfing film, The Seedling, and in 2004 released his second, Sprout. He is also creative director for a small, independent record label, Galaxia, which has released records by contemporary artists Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, Peggy Honeywell and Black Heart Procession." (from iconoclastusa.com)

i first discovered THOMAS CAMPBELL through the amazing art for the UGLY CASANOVA album SHARPEN YOUR TEETH.

sample works:



(photo of bright black morning light)