New Book Release
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Tales From the Downslope, Edition 3- Flower Meditations
A new magazine of images for meditation. https://claytoncampbell.com/2022/03/30/tales-from-the-downslope-edition-3-flower-meditations/
Recent Selected Writings About Art and Artists by Clayton Campbell; Published in Artillery Magazine
I have been writing about art and artists for many years, and especially enjoy writing about artists and curators whose work makes a difference in our cultural landscape. In this post, I would like to share a selection of some recent pieces of mine published in Artillery Magazine. Tony Conrad, who had a full and…
Tales From The Downslope: A New Magazine From Clayton Campbell
I am pleased to announce the release of my new E-publication, Tales From The Downslope: But Picking Up Speed Really Fast. This first edition, 46 page magazine contains my new and recent photographs, short stories, and commentary about my work. The magazines features a 2018 portfolio of self portraits that are a self deprecating look…
Susu Attar at The Mistake Room- On View Through 12/18/18
I am pleased to share with you an interview I conducted with Los Angeles artist Susu Attar, currently exhibiting at The Mistake Room in LA. I first met Susu when she was one of the first Artist Fellows in the Little Tokyo Service Center +LAB Artist Residency Program. Her work is dynamic and powerful, and…
Ai Wei Wei Answers Questions at UTA Press Event, October 4, 2018
On the morning of the third and final installment of his Los Angeles exhibitions, Ai Wei Wei was disarming yet candid with a small group of persons at the UTA Space in Beverly Hills. Looking a little tired from the past few days, he warmed up as the questions came his way, and offered some…
Remembering September 11
Since 1976 I have been making art. I am based in Los Angeles since 1990, but I get around. My longest running art project, and that to which I have the deepest personal commitment, is Words We Have Learned Since 9/11, began in 2005. It has been presented in numerous venues in many countries over…
Dinh Q. Le: The Scrolls: Distortion Series, and the San Art Residency in Ho Chi Minh City
Dinh Q. Le is my colleague and friend since 2004 when we worked together on the Board of Directors of Res Artis, the International Association of Residential Arts Centers. Since then we have both remained part of an active group of artist/activists who have become Cultural Producers; artist practitioners whose work, besides exhibiting and writing…
PST LA/LA- South of the Border at the Loft at Liz’s Evokes the Urgency of DACA Families
PST LA/LA has many venues including all of our large museums with wonderful catalogues and ambitious check-lists. And then there are small alternative galleries that received no funding but are part of the overall programming. Such is the case with the indefatigable Loft at Liz’s, voted one of the ten top best galleries in Los…
The Mistake Room in Los Angeles Shows Diana Thater’s Environmental Lament in “A Runaway World”
For any of us who have been fortunate enough to spend time on a protected game reserve in Africa, you are seeing the last of many incredible species that most probably will not be on this planet past the end of the 21st Century. This is the subject of two videos brought into sharp technological…