Kimberley Campisano

Education and activities

Biography

San Francisco Bay Area artist and educator working primarily with photography, drawing, painting, and digital media. She has studied and worked in Arizona, California, Italy, Mexico, and Cuba. Whether documenting cultural practices or examining family histories and biological allegories, she seeks to engage her viewers in a dialogue of recognition and imagination.
My art, (like most art, like life itself) is the struggle for integration – time and timelessness, the specific and the universal, chance and intention, creation and destruction.This integration darkness and light corresponds to that of the mind and body, spirit and material, science and art, male and female. A differentiation of purpose with an integration of function can lead us out of opposition and fear of each other and perhaps allow us to survive the age we are entering.

Exhibitions

* 2007...Impermanent Utterance, 4-Person show. Arts and Consciousness Gallery. John F. Kennedy University. Berkeley, CA
* 2005... Breakthrough, Group show. San Francisco Art Institute.
* 2001... Post-Postcard 5, Group show. Southern Exposure Gallery. San Francisco, CA
* 2001...Imagine That, Group show. San Francisco Women’s Artist Gallery.
* 2000...A Visual Journey, Group show. San Francisco Women’s Artist Gallery.
* 1999...Post-Postcard 4, Group show. Four Walls. San Francisco, CA
* 1997...Mostra 97, 4-Person show. Museo Italo-Americano. San Francisco, CA
* 1997...Mail Art, Group show. San Francisco Art Institute.
* 1997...Music Photographed, 3-Person show. Aquarius Records. San Francisco
* 1996-present... Music Photographed selections, group show on permanent display. Kilowatt. San Francisco, CA
* 1996...Tracce Dall’Interiore Italiano: Traces from the Italian Interior, Solo Show. Media Alliance. San Francisco, CA
* 1994...Misure Veils Figure, group show. Galleria Via Larga. Florence, Italy

Announcements

Stay tuned for upcoming 3-person collaboration at John F Kennedy University's Arts and Consciousness Gallery in August 2008

My favourites

Artist

...of many...
Ann Hamilton
Bill Viola
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Anselm Kiefer
Abelardo Morell
Tina Modotti...

Movie

too many...
Nights of Cabiria
Doctor Strangelove
The Bicycle Thief
The Conformist
The Kingdom
Harold and Maude
Battle of Algiers
Hero
Underground

Literature

Salman Rushdie
Primo Levi
Khalil Gibran
Dante
Calvino
Brecht
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Borges
Isabel Allende
Kingsolver (specifically, Poisonwood Bible)

Music

The Pixies
The Mekons
David Bowie
Public Enemy
Gang of Four
Gil Scott Heron
Coltrane
Nina Simone
Funkadelic

Interests

art, music, yoga, film