Crystal Z. Campbell in ‘A Field of Meaning’ at Callicoon Fine Arts

By revisiting historical events through one individual’s point of view, Crystal Z. Campbell reconsiders the 1921 race massacre that devastated Tulsa, Oklahoma’s burgeoning African American Greenwood District.  The artist personalizes this archival photo of a Tulsa woman, adding color and patterning and thereby making it impossible to overlook this peaceful scenario as ordinary or every day.  (On view in ‘A Field of Meaning’ at Callicoon Fine Arts on the Lower East Side).

Crystal Z. Campbell, Notes from Black Wall Street: Receptive, Soft and Absolute, mixed media on birch wood panel, 24 x 30 inches, 2019.