This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| John Patrick Campbell is a Washington D.C.based realistic artist who, for the past six years, has been working with the artist Frank Wright, his former professor at the George Washington University. Born and reared in New Orleans, he attended the George Washington University after winning a Presidential Scholarship in Fine Arts in 1993. After a month's sojourn of painting in Corfu, Greece, following his junior year, he realized that he was destined to be an artist who would dedicate his life to painting.
Coinciding with the beginning of his work in Frank Wright's studio in 1996, was the monumental Vermeer show at the National Gallery of Art. Because the Gallery was only two blocks away from Wright's studio, he was able to see the show four times, spending several hours at a time with these masterpieces. It changed his life: the eloquence of Vermeer's interpretations of optical reality gave him great pleasure. Like a growing number of young artists, he derives much excitement and artistic sustenance from some of the artists of the past who were supreme realists before the advent of photography: not only Vermeer and Velazquez, but also the Neo-classical nineteenth century painters, Jean-Jacques David and J.A.D. Ingres. The work of the enigmatic, but at times, whimsical Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, is also of great interest to this young artist.
Campbell not only specializes in still life painting of vanitas themes but also takes pleasure in trompe l'oeil images and miniatures. He has a great interest in painting the nude human figure, which he pursues through self-portraits that approach life size, and are totally painted from life, without the assistance of photography.
Campbell's work has been receiving wide attention throughout the United States. He has received several major awards: Second Prize for Still Life in the American Realism Today Show in San Francisco, 2000; The Jane Petersen Award for Still Life at the Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Hasting-on-the-Hudson, New York, 2002; Third Prize in Oils, The Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society of Washington, 1999. He received an Emerging Artist of the Year Award, 2000, awarded by the American Artist Magazine.
He also has received grants from the Stacey Foundation and the American Art League. Campbell was the Introductions Artist 2001 at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, which handles his work. In 2002, the artist's work has been exhibited in the Salmagundi Club, New York; the Hilton Head Art League's National Juried Art Exhibition, Hilton Head, South Carolina; the Bennington Art Center in Bennington, Vermont; the John Pence Gallery, San Francisco; as well as the Newington Cropsey show in Hastings, New York.
John Patrick Campbell's objective is to master painting in an optically realistic manner, through the depiction of still life and people from life. His fervent desire is to connect himself artistically with the great realistic artists of the past. While his work has symbolic overtones with its vanitas themes, Campbell's intention is to express the pleasures of the life of a young artist at the beginning of the new millennium.
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