“Being in the arts is a lot like the old adage of being a shark—stop swimming and you die.”
—Steven Campbell
After nearly 40 years of professional print publishing, Steven Campbell’s studio practice and artistic ethos are bubbling to the surface in The Tyranny of Small Things, an exhibition of found image collages, mixed media paintings, and sculptures. This demonstrative survey of Campbell’s studio practice lays bare the artist’s dark sense of humor; astute anthropological observations; Bay Area influences and mentors, such as Kenji Nanao; & 40-plus year career in the arts, where he has alternately, and sometimes concurrently, acted as artist, printer, and educator.
