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RICHARD CAMPIGLIO
I was twelve and a half and secretly did a million things. When no one looked, I took out my pencil and wrote stuff on paintings that I would see in the handful of galleries of my home town. I know now my errors, but somehow then, I felt entitled, as if the art itself was serving its ultimate purpose, and I, with an open heart was allowing myself to be moved. Of course I was caught, fined and banished, but not cured.
A number of years later, I slept in an old pigeon coop for the summer. Clean but with a lowroof. I slept most of the day with the shutters closed, small lines of sunlight moving slowly down the wall. It was then that I noticed the walls, imperfect and whitewashed, and in my half-sleep, I started seeing things in them. Staying half asleep and half awake, I took out my pencil and started scratching things into the whitewash.
Today, I do the same thing. These mixed media paintings are little pieces of wall onto which I draw, automatically, commenting on myself, on the paintings themselves, on the things that I see and the things that I hear. I strive to be free, and to make accessible images, childlike, adolescent, humorous, severe, and always human.
Born: January 25 1967 in Palma de Mallorca Spain
Lived in Mallorca until age 14
Moved to Santa Fe NM in 1981
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1992
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, University of New Mexico, 1992
Exhibitions
2008 April Next Art Fair, Chicago, IL. GarsonBaker Fine Art NYC
2008 March Beaux Arts. Group Show. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
2008 Janurary Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles CA. Garson Fine Art, NYC
2007 October Two Person Show. Garson Fine Art, New York City
2007 September Tease, Group Show. Garson Fine Art, New York City
2007 July Clear Blue Sky. Group Show. Aidan-Savoy Gallery, New York. City
2007 July 26 hours at Art Santa Fe. Individual rotating shows of 26 artists, curated
by Cindy Conn and Zane Fisher. Santa Fe NM
2007 May Friends of Contemporary Art. Salon Mar Graff. Tesuque NM
2006 December Winter Show. 3 Person show. Work on paper. Cruz Gallery. Santa Fe NM
2005 November Surveillance, Group Show. Turner Carroll Gallery. Santa Fe NM
2005 July Art Santa Fe, Contemporary Art Fair Santa Fe NM
2004 September “tiny peeps”, Solo Show. Turner Carroll Gallery. Santa Fe NM
2004 July The Doodlists! Group Show. Turner Carroll Gallery. Santa Fe NM
2003 June “Where’d you get that hair?”Solo Show. Turner Carroll Gallery. Santa Fe
NM
2001 November Two Person Show. G2 Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
2001 September “Meaningful”, Solo Show. Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna
Beach, CA
2001 August “I’m an Elephant”, Solo Show. Helix Fine Art. Santa Fe NM
2001 July New Dialogues, Group Show. Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco
CA
2001 April Texas National 2001, Donald Sultan curator. Group Show.
2001 March “How the West Won”, CMC Gallery. Wendy McDaris Curator
2000 July “Come drink at my trough”, Solo Show. Helix Fine Art. Santa Fe NM
2000 January “Caught but not cured”, Solo Show Plan B, Center for Contemporary Art,
Santa Fe NM.
Publications
THE Magazine, Critical Reflections, by Jon Carver November 2004
THE Magazine, Universe of artist Richard Campiglio, May 2001
Art-Talk, Muy Caliente in Santa Fe, by Shari R. Morrison. April-May 2001, pg. 22
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print. Vol 30. November 2000. The Open Studio ,
Press, Wellesley, MA
The Santa Fe Reporter, “Freedom at any Age: Form appears in Campiglio’s work”, by John
Carver, July 19-25, 2000 pg.26
The Santa Fe Reporter, “Some Ways With Words: several local shows turn writting into visual
art”, by John Carver, March29-April 4, 2000 pg.26
The New Mexican, Pasatiempo, “Artist Inhabits Childlike Dreamworld” by Lynn Cline July 21-
27,2000
The New Mexican, Pasatiempo, “Campiglio Strives to Surprise Himself” by Craig Smith January
7-13, 2000
Journal North, The Arts, by Tom Collins, October 7, 1999. Pg. 6
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