🔥 Vintage Modern California Regionalism Cityscape Oil Painting DARLENE CAMPBELL

Description: This is a visually striking and well done Vintage Modern California Regionalism Cityscape Oil Painting on canvas, by the accomplished and widely acclaimed California Modern Realism / Regionalist painter, Darlene Campbell (b. 1957.) This is the earliest known artwork by Campbell to ever surface on the market, which was painted in 1983 during her years at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. This artwork depicts a suburban Regionalist style scene on Del Prado Avenue in Dana Point, California. The imagery in this work shows a black-topped city street terminating at the edge of an ocean cliffside, with multiple orange and white hazard signs reading "ROAD CLOSED" and "CONSTRUCTION AREA. KEEP OUT." Multiple lamp posts punctuate this scene, while several Stop Signs at the right edge of this image stand tall above the scenery, like garish man-made trees. At the top of one of the Stop Signs, a small green sign reads: "DEL PRADO." Signed and dated on the verso: "Darlene Campbell 1983." Approximately 22 x 28 inches. Good condition for 40 years of age and storage, with mild scuffing, edge wear, and speckles minor paint loss throughout (please see photos.) Priced to Sell. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Darlene Campbell Darlene Campbell (b. 1957) is an artist.Numerous key galleries and museums such as Lois Lambert Gallery have featured Darlene Campbell's work in the past. Darlene Campbell earned her B.A. in Art from the University of Redlands (1979) and her M.F.A. in Painting from The Claremont Graduate University (1986). Her work has been featured at the Nevada Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Loyola Marymount University, University of Redlands, the Laguna Art Museum, the Riverside Art Museum, Barnsdall Art Park, and the Frye Art Museum (Seattle). Darlene Campbell has also illustrated two published books. In 2004, one of her paintings was used as the cover artwork for D.J. Waldie’s book, "Where We Are Now: Notes From Los Angeles". Darlene currently teaches painting and drawing at the Laguna College of Art and Design. She has also taught on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program. Darlene Campbell lives in Laguna Beach, California.In what has become a hallmark of her work, Campbell employs beauty to disarm the viewer. To suggest history and age, she paints on either wood blocks or wood panels. Making use of golden-hued light and dramatic clouds, Campbell coaxes beauty out of the banal and, in so doing, mimics romantic 17th century landscape paintings. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010Darlene Campbell ,Koplin Del Rio ,Seattle, Washington, USA 2007Paradise was Here: Darlene Campbell ,Nevada Museum of Art ,Reno, Nevada, USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2022Reflection on Our Warming Planet. Conception and selection of participants by: Lucinda Luvaas ,Lois Lambert Gallery ,Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA 2021Neighborhood ,Koplin Del Rio ,Seattle, Washington, USA 2020Winter Salon ,Koplin Del Rio ,Seattle, Washington, USA 2017Liberty ,Koplin Del Rio ,Seattle, Washington, USA 2016IDENTITY Method: Degrees of Separation ,Koplin Del Rio ,Seattle, Washington, USA 2012SUBLIME: Nature, Science and the Divine in Contemporary Art ,Koplin Del Rio ,Seattle, Washington, USA Art review: Darlene Campbell at Koplin Del Rio (5/6/10)Darlene Campbell takes on a familiar theme in her small, safe and lovely paintings at Koplin Del Rio. Her subject — development’s encroachment on the Southern California landscape — is charged, discomfiting even, but she keeps the political, environmental and social heat on low, so that the work barely simmers.“Land Reform,” an 8-by-12-inch panel, presents a view of green, gently rolling hills that have been partially carved and scraped into submission as building lots. Campbell, who lives in Laguna Beach, paints reverentially, investing an all-too-ordinary sight with a 19th century luminist’s sense of the sublime, and further, gracing the edges of the panels with gold leaf. Robert Ginder’s gilded images of palm trees and California bungalows come to mind.Overflowing dumpsters, desert billboards, stacked shipping containers and generic housing developments are hardly the stuff of icons, but Campbell bathes these manifestations of our materialist impulses in spiritualized light and makes them so. She can get heavy-handed (as in “Future History,” a Sandow-Birk-like vision of freeway pylons and classical columns, both in ruins on the same stretch of what was once an Orange County toll road), but mostly the work errs on the side of understatement. The interruptions and incongruities of our untouched/overbuilt landscape are diplomatically smoothed over. Beautiful and banal coexist in pictorial harmony, reconciled by the burnished glow of afternoon light.– Leah OllmanKoplin Del Rio Gallery, 6031 Washington Blvd., Culver City CLASSICALLY SUBURBAN LANDSCAPES Half-completed freeway viaducts that stand like Roman ruins; terraced tract homes aglow in Arcadian twilight; a commuter's view of distant rain clouds hovering over palm trees. These are some of the modern Southern California images of painter Darlene Campbell, whose work was recently flagged by urban-living blog FourStory as part of its look at art dealing with homes and architecture. Staring at them you think, This is how the future will see us. I, too, am in Arcadia — and Monrovia. Glorious Landscape Paintings in Contemporary Art Darlene Campbell - Nature of Time, 2010The artwork called Nature of Time by the artist Darlene Campbell is a piece of pure realism. There would be no much difference between this painting and the photograph of the same spot-on Earth if you wanted to make a comparison. When you look at this art piece for the first time, you might not see its true value at a first glance, but its calming effect would really fascinate you, that’s for sure. Campbell wanted to bring this particular place to the viewer exactly as it is. The same goes for her other artworks. This New York-born and a California-based artist is creating landscape paintings exactly as she sees her surroundings so that the viewers get the same feeling when they look at her art as she had while creating it.

Price: 2750 USD

Location: Orange, California

End Time: 2024-08-25T20:29:38.000Z

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