Shawn Campbell's Act III - The Act of Acting
YCC took a road trip to Mobile for the opening of Shawn Campbell’s fantastic solo exhibition Act III - The Act of Acting at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center.
Campbell is known for pithy nostalgia embodied by a multimedia approach to sculpture that
masquerades as strange new forms pumped out of the pop culture machine of old. Pulling references
from the silent film era to Pee Wee's Playhouse. Cowboy mythology is anything but a fixed point in the context of Campbell's work. He has created a world within a world offering up campy, playful, and cutting revisions of what we imagine a cowboy to be. A full-scale installation sets the stage for a
subversive reclamation of masculine tropes, old, new, and wildly off-center.