Watercolor

Perception and Watercolor

From her research in neuroscience and art, Naomi Andrée Campbell’s recent watercolors investigate perception and the creative process through the act of seeing. The transformative process in her watercolors explores the ephemeral expression emerging out of hierarchical acts of “seeing.” Working in concert with memory “templates” and the physics of fluid and biological motion, her watercolors reveal her unique perceptions of another world of liminal spaces. In 2021, based on her research, the Marlen Meyerson JCC Manhattan and the Dana Foundation initiated an ongoing lecture series during Brain Awareness Week on “Art and the Brain” with Naomi Andrée Campbell and neuroscientist Dr. Felice Ghirlardi to discuss how we perceive the world and its critical engagement with art and life. in 2022, the Italian Cultural Institute presented “Art and the Brain: Science, Creativity and Healing with panellists: Vittorio Gallese, MD, Maria Felice Ghilardi, MD, Naomi Andrée Campbell, Emiliano Santarnecchi, PhD., PsyD, Marygrace Berberian, PhD., LCAT, ATR-BC, LCSW, Andrea Casson and Caroline Kohles, Senior Director of Health and Fitness at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan.

Naomi Andrée Campbell is a faculty instructor of the Contemporary Body in Watercolor at The Art Students League of New York since 2007. She has also lectured, judged and given workshops at the Morgan Library and Museum, NY; the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY; the Center for Italian Modern Art, NY; the New York Transit Museum, NY; CUNY, NY; the Hudson Valley Art Association, NY and at numerous national and international colleges and organizations since 1998.

 Part of her research and interdisciplinary practice emanates from her Japanese/multi-ethnic identity woven into her background in science.

Watercolor Artist magazine published a special highlight on the artist in their October 2017 issue, by invited guest writer John A. Parks.

Selected works below are from: the COVID/Nomadic series 2020-2022, Explorations of Biological Motion (of the Body) Series, and from 2017-current in chronological order per series. Works are watercolor, ink, work on paper. For more information, please contact.

  • “Windows Exhibition, 215 West 57th Street, New York, NY April 7th - June 1st, 2023

  • “Instructor Exhibition Art Students League of New York,” Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY through October 16th, 2022

  • “Summer Drawing Exhibition,” Mutton Dressed as Lamb

  • “In a Line of Water,” at The Art Students League of New York

  • “The Space Between” and “Out of time, In time,” are based on altered perceptions of time and space with everyday objects during COVID (see exhibitions on Artsy with gallery Mutton Dressed as Lamb and Equity Gallery exhibition “Penumbra.”).

  • “The Salient Body” explores proprioception and perceptions of the brain and art involved in human biological motion.

  • “The Contiguity of Anonymous Spaces” focuses on perceptions of plant responses through their collaborated movement.

  • “Engineered Food Staples” investigates concerns of food technology and sustainability as part of the “Edacity” series (see Projects).

 
 
 

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