painting by Cameron Alexander Lawrence
Join us for the opening reception of Cameron Alexander Lawrence’s Until I Can See You on Saturday, February 6th from 4-6PM in the gallery. A brief artist talk will begin at 4:30PM, which will also be live streamed from our Instagram @sojournarts.
About Until I Can See You:
“The paintings in Until I Can See You are meant as both statements of longing for connection and attempts to enact a deeper communion between myself and the viewer, beyond the structures and forms of language (written and verbal) and the reductive ways we define our world. They’re also an embodied meditation on how the act of painting itself can be a path to deeper self-knowledge, which I consider prerequisite to true intimacy with others. Through layers of poured paint, redacted materials, collage, lyrical lines, and organic shapes—often inspired by (and heavily abstracted) parts of the human body—I hope to open a space where the viewer can contend with the uncategorizable facets of their personhood, beginning with their own corporeality, and that of the people they encounter day after day. Until I Can See You is documentation of this search for meaningful connection, but even more it’s an invitation to lean closer—to see past our projections of ego and posturing and truly find one another.”
painting by Cameron Alexander Lawrence
Cameron Alexander Lawrence is a poet and visual artist from Phoenix, Arizona. A graduate of the University of Arizona, where he studied English and Creative Writing, Cameron’s poems appear in numerous literary journals and anthologies. His paintings can be found in private collections across the United States, as well as in Europe and the United Kingdom. He keeps busy writing and painting in his home studio in Decatur, Georgia, where he lives with his wife, four young children, and a spirited Goldendoodle named Frida.