Street Scene
Primary
Jim Campbell
(Chicago, Illinois, 1956–San Francisco, California, present)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date2006
MediumCustom electronics, LEDs, acrylic
DimensionsAdditional Dimension: 18 1/2 × 24 in. (47 × 61 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Promised gift of Jeanne and Michael Klein, 2007
Rights Statement
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object numberPG2007.4
On View
Not on viewBlurred and amorphous, the images in Jim Campbell’s work are purposefully low resolution. “It eliminates all of the details in the image, and it forces you to focus on the movement and the shapes and the forms,” he explains. In lieu of individual traits, the subjects in "Street Scene" (taken from a recording on Fifth Avenue in New York) become stand-ins for the viewer’s own experience. In this way, the artist’s medium of projection becomes particularly apt, as it also points to the viewer’s own capacity to “project” his or her perception onto the anonymous figures.
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