We Made (Pretend) Plans A Going Solo Award Winner Susan Campell's Solo Installation Exhibition

Susan Campbell's work is focused on industrialization and the study of the landscape beneath our feet. Looking directly at pavement and lines drawn on the environment around us giving all of us a sense of imaginary boundaries. The way she explained her work, as a Canadian artist exhibiting her work in America, was just as excited as a kid left to explore a candy store. She was pointing out things in St. Charles, Missouri that I myself as a native would have never thought to notice. That attention to detail and record keeping of all things new and surrounding us is something that I hope to keep in my years as an artist.
Though I was only a volunteer at the time, this exhibition required a lot of attention from the artist and the exhibitions manager at the time Natalie Tucker, and when they both had heard that I had curated a couple of shows before then I became completely involved and in charge of the installation spaces. Susan had a clear vision as to how she wanted the gallery to be mapped out, using her work that consistently had lines and shapes overlapping, and since she had a wide variety of mediums such as photography, video, paper, vinyl, sculptures, this exhibition was all about balance; balance when trying to call attention to all of these boundaries surrounding the viewer without making them feel unnecessarily contained and cornered. So we had it mapped out like any other map, with everything squared up and in its proper places to invite the viewer to look closer, to see the videos explaining her work before you came into direct contact with the pieces, and ending on some of the smallest, most delicate works out of such an industrially inspired exhibition. Tangible to intangible.