S2, EP.3: Cydney Camp
Cydney Camp, photo credit: CJ Benninger
We sit down with artist Cydney Camp to discuss the significance of the artistic process, oil paint and its unique properties, and female representation in the art world.
Cydney Camp (b. 1994, Detroit) is an artist whose oil paintings and drawings investigate the Black psyche and experience in America.
She lovingly deconstructs the figure to explore these complexities of contemporary life to depict Black, often femme, subjects existing in familiar, yet alternative realities. Her subjects continually come together and fall apart. Their multitude of identities and modes of being probe a nonlinear lived experience in real time. Distorted perspectives, abstract compositional strategies, and a sensorial color palette form dreamlike scenes that suggest an experience outside the exploitative extraction of the Black body that pervades our broader cultural ethos.
Camp has exhibited across Detroit and Michigan, including at M Contemporary, Norwest Gallery, Louis Buhl, Library Street Collective, Reyes Finn, Detroit Fiber Works, and many more. Cydney lives and works in Hamtramck, Detroit.
Image: Thicket — 2022, 60 x 48, oil paint, oil stick, and fabric on canvas
Image: Loving Detachment — 2022, 48 x 36 inches, oil and acrylic paint, charcoal on canvas
Image: Mallard — 2023, 64 x 75.5 inches, oil and acrylic paint on canvas
Image: Coils — 2022, 8 x 8 inches, oil and acrylic paint, charcoal on panel
Image: Passages — 2022 22 x 30 inches, oil paint, oil stick, and oil pastel on Arches paper
Images (from left to right): Weather Pattern — 2022, 8 x 8 inches, oil and acrylic paint, charcoal on panel | Shell — 2023, 8 x 8 inches, oil on panel | Man on Fire — 2022, 16 x 20 inches, oil paint on canvas | Shore — 2022 6 x 6 inches, oil and acrylic paint, charcoal on panel
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