Lucitations: Shawn Camp and Vy Ngo at ICOSA

Exhibition Dates: April 11 - May 10, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11th, 7-10 pm

Artist Talk: Thursday, April 17th, 6-8 pm (Third Thursdays)

Join me April 11 for the opening of Lucitations, exploring the connections between the creative journey, intersection of the organic and subconscious, and various states of energy felt when we are present in our surroundings.

Lucitations is about the meditative states achieved through the creative process, between the artist and the surface, the moment of creation, and being present in our environment. 

As the artists become vehicles for how decisions are to be made, within the process the goal is to reach that flow state. Consciously setting ourselves to be open to all the inputs from our environment, translating from the source to the surface. By being intentionally present, the conversation continues between order and chaos, broad to narrow, trusting intuition and letting go of expectation.

New Images Coming Soon

An update has been a long time coming - just got very busy with other stuff. But plenty of brand new paintings will be uploaded soon. In the meantime, some news: After a solo show “Phase Transitions” at Louise Hopkins Center in Waco, I’m in summertime mode in the studio. I currently have a painting in the New Texas Talent 31 exhibition at Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, TX as well as a group show curated by Kevin Ivester at ICOSA in Austin. ACC faculty show coming up in the Fall. Two-person show with Vy Ngo coming up in the Spring and a solo show at the Rockport Center for the Arts next year.

Strictly Abstraction - the inaugural show at The Art Galleries at Austin Community College

I’m part of this 4-person show that kicks off the brand new state-of-the-art gallery space at the Highland Campus. The show opens November 6th and is partnered with the 2021 Austin Studio Tour. Strictly Abstraction runs through February. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the Austin area!

For information, see https://admc.austincc.edu/art/gallery/

2021: ICOSA, Fort Worth, Baton Rouge, Rockport, Corpus Christi, Lubbock,Lockhart and San Antonio

It’s been a crazy year of shows!

A peek into my studio - as part of the 2020 Austin Studio Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOObEeCGy8Q&feature=emb_title&fbclid=IwAR3sWZcWS7kWBQveUOEBeB-E9FGa_Ha2YKUGlK7IUtRGiX2Gnp1voz_OY9w

For more information: https://www.austinstudiotour.org/

Glasstire's Five-Minute Tours

Check out the mini video tours presented by Glasstire.com for Comity of Ghosts and Echoes and Spaces!

Comity of Ghosts at ICOSA Gallery

For my second two-person exhibition at ICOSA Gallery I worked with Darcie Book to create Comity of Ghosts, a show blending video, installation, sculpture, and painting. Here’s a review by Wayne Alan Brenner for the Austin Chronicle:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2020-10-16/shawn-camp-and-darcie-book-comity-of-ghosts/

Third Coast Biennial

This summer my work was a part of the Third Coast Biennial at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas.

https://kspacecontemporary.org/

Grayduck Gallery Artsy Site

I’m now included in Graduck Gallery’s artsy site - have a look!

https://www.artsy.net/gray-duck-gallery/artist/shawn-camp

Completed Commission of Backlit ceiling installation piece

The end of 2019 brought to completion a long-term project for a residence in South Austin. Anshar is an installation of backlit acrylic panels into the entire ceiling of an upstairs room. Here are a couple images of the work! Photography by @ddbailie. Thanks to Camiba Art and Vince and Dara Prothro!

Echoes and Spaces

Echoes and Spaces, New Paintings by Shawn Camp and Lana Waldrep-Appl
Exhibition Dates: February 28, 2020 – March 28, 2020
Opening Reception: Friday, February 28, 7-10 pm
Open Canopy: Friday, March 6, 7-10 pm

We walk around in a world filled with little moments of clarity amongst a dense fog of existence. Tiny bits of connection, something that feels like déjà vu, arise and form echoes in our experiences.

In Echoes and Spaces, Lana Waldrep-Appl and Shawn Camp explore the feelings of the sublime that happen in those moments when you allow yourself to completely reside inside of the space you are in. These paintings feel like daydreaming, an activity that takes place primarily when doing nothing. Both artists are interested in exploring the something-ness of nothing. Camp makes paintings of air and space; imagery devoid of solid forms. That nothingness is framed through subtle geometric divisions and contradictory hints of color. Through translucence and refraction, the shimmering surfaces convey a sense of atmosphere and explore the mystery of light, matter, and space. Waldrep-Appl makes paintings of nothing spaces—places of waiting, landscapes that drone by during a commute, visual white noise, the places between places where things happen. These spaces are never flat. A gray is never just gray. Varied chromatic grays, near whites, and unanticipated pastels invite viewers to see there is more to these ignorable spaces.

Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6 pm or by appointment
For appointments: email info@icosacollective.com, or call 512-920-2062
ICOSA Collective Gallery
916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #102
Austin, TX 78702
www.icosacollective.com
icosacollective@gmail.com