
"I'll Huff and I'll Puff"
2008
"I'll Huff and I'll Puff" presents Rebecca Campbell's intimate yet psychologically charged approach to figuration in a compact oil on panel format measuring just under 28 by 33 centimeters. The title's allusion to the childhood fable lends the work a quality of latent menace beneath a deceptively quiet surface, a tension characteristic of Campbell's broader practice, in which familiar imagery becomes a vehicle for examining vulnerability, power, and the narratives that shape identity. Executed in 2008, the piece reflects the sustained rigor Campbell brought to her painting during a period when her work was gaining significant national and international visibility, and the small scale invites an unusually close, almost conspiratorial relationship between the work and its viewer. Campbell holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has built a career that bridges vigorous institutional exhibition and dedicated arts education, holding teaching positions at California State University Fullerton, Art Center College of Design, Claremont Graduate University, and Vermont College of Fine Art, among others. Her paintings have been shown at Gagosian Gallery, the Phoenix Art Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, and her work appears regularly at Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, ARCO Madrid, and ADAA: The Art Show. Represented by L.A. Louver Gallery and covered extensively in ARTnews, the Los Angeles Times, and Artnet, Campbell occupies a well-established place in contemporary figurative painting. Signed by the artist, this panel is offered through the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions benefit auction, presenting a rare opportunity to acquire a focused, finely resolved work from a significant moment in her practice.
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- Oil on panel
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- Signed
- Yes
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