Bryce_Wolkowitz_Gallery_
505 West 24th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Tuesday – Saturday through May 22
Admission: free
212-243-8830
www.brycewolkowitz.com
www.jimcampbell.tv
Jim Campbell has been creating unique and innovative multimedia works for two decades, investigating vision and memory in light-based installations that have won him Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, among other awards. His current show at Bryce_Wolkowitz_ features several fascinating LED pieces that play with movement and shadow in dreamlike ways. In “Tourists #2 (Statue of Liberty),” ghostly figures walk by in the foreground of the base of the iconic statue, almost as if in a death march. Cars and people stop and go in a gray, eerie landscape in “Montgomery Street Pause.” LEDs obscure an image of a smiling child in “Home Movies.” And 1142 LEDs seemingly dangle in space, depicting a dark figure running and falling, in “Exploded View”; be sure to walk all around the installation to get the full impact of Campbell’s fascinating method. Campbell, who was born in Chicago, earned an electrical engineering degree from MIT, and is based in San Francisco, will be back in New York in October 2011, when he will install a commissioned light sculpture in Madison Square Park.