LeRoy Campbell "Waters Edge"
This Artwork is: 
Hand Signed 
Limited Edition of 850 (actual number received may be different than image shown)
Framed in beautiful black wood frame
Matted white witch black core double V Groove
Image Size: 35" x 18"  
Framed Size: 27" x 10"
Ready to hang hardware included
Framed in the USA
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LEROY CAMPBELL (1956 - ) Leroy Campbell was born into the rich culture of the Gullah people of Charleston, South Carolina in 1956. His heritage—overflowing with a vital history and language—would play a significant role in his art in later years. Campbell is well known for his silhouetted Mannerist style images, with elongated necks, legs and arms. He says that his art has, “Spiritual underpinnings.” His style inspiration came from the notion of using stick figures, and also from images he saw in the silhouetted introduction of a television show called, ‘Saints.’  He was also greatly inspired by the stylized art of Ernie Barnes. Campbell’s early works were all paint, but his recent works are laden with mixed media elements like paper, fabric, found objects, and recently old African American Newspapers.  His collage inspirations came from two of the artists who influenced his work the most, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden.  He says that his goal as an artist is to praise the human spirit, and he wants to encourage people to do things, “in spite of.” Many of his stylized images reflect the ideologies of the Gullah culture from a contemporary perspective, and through his most recent series, “The Newspaper Series,” he deals with some of the history and meaning of newspapers in Gullah tradition. In Gullah tradition, newspapers play a significant role in protection from evil and benevolent spirits. Many of his pieces feature imagery reminiscent of his childhood living in the south, and his adult life in New York City. His goal is to show the viewer that we are all connected notwithstanding locale and time.  Leroy Campbell is an internationally recognized visual artist, who has been collected and printed extensively in America and abroad. When he is not traveling and speaking, you can find him most often in his studio creating emphatically and passionately.