Whose zoomin’ who”? By Barbara Ann Levy
Camilla Fallon’s paint is a stealthy vehicle for her intelligence! Her self-portraits are painterly and provocative.
They make reference to well known art historical periods as well as reflect the quick repartee and boomerang interaction of
social networking and the emerging world paradigm albeit at a much slower more considered pace.
They are about self examination as well as gender and sexual identity.
They are also metaphors for the creative process itself; how images emerge, to see something from a different perspective.
She has made paintings of herself holding many different shapes and sizes of mirrors.
In this painting the artist holds a long rectangular mirror to reflect her image to the viewer. I am left with the question,
“Will she need to crane her neck in this position to see herself?” “Ay, there’s the rub” !
She seems to reflect every woman’s dilemma caught in an institutionalized sexist society.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Camilla Fallon graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is an M.F.A. graduate of the Yale University School of Art. She lives and works in New York City, and taught at the Parsons School of Design for several years. Camilla has exhibited at the Denise Bibro Gallery and the Kim Foster Gallery in Chelsea, The Synagogue For the Arts, the Barbara Ann Levy
Gallery on Fire Island, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and other venues in New York City. She has received many artist fellowships notably from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.
Camilla is a contributing writer to a blog: West Palm Beach, New York City and Anything Else, North Atlantic Corridor Arts-
http://wpbnyc.wordpress.com/
In the Flesh , by Margaret Diehl
click for recent interview with Qi Peng at the SLCExaminer
for more information please see:
Camilla
Fallon on Neoimages
http://camillafallonpaintings.com
info@camillafallon.com
for graphic design:
www.camillafallonartanddesign.com
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