Dorothea Van Camp
Breach

01. Florid 2107, 2021, screen printed oil and wax on linen over panel, 34 x 28 inches, $2800.00

02. Piqued 2124, 2021, screen printed oil and wax on linen over panel,60 x 48 inches, $7600.00

03. Flowery 2102, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 14 x 11 inches, $360.00

04. Bocage 2101, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 14 x 11 inches, $360.00

05. Verity Verso 2108, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 40 x 26 inches, $2100.00

06. Standoff 2125, 2021, screen printed oil and wax on linen over panel, 60 x 48 inches, $7600.00

07. Ensorcell 2122, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 40 x 26 inches, $2100.00

08. Baroqued 2104, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 40 x 26 inches, $2100.00

09. Without Expectation 2115, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 40 x 26 inches, $2100.00

10. Reave 2113, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 40 x 26 inches, $2100.00

11. Crinolines 2106, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 40 x 26 inches, $2100.00

12. Retrovertigo 2117, 2021, screen printed oil and wax on linen over panel, 34 x 28 inches, $2800.00

13. Dupatta 2116, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 48 x 36 inches, $3400.00

14. Grandiloquent 2121, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 36 x 30 inches, $2200.00

15. Chromakey Tree 2111, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 36 x 30 inches, $2200.00

16. Orotund 2120, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 36 x 30 inches, $2200.00

17. Precision 2105, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 26 x 20 inches, $1100.00

18. Tapestry I 2118, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 26 x 20 inches, $1100.00

19. Heartfelt 2103, 2021, screen printed oil and wax on linen over panel, 34 x 28 inches, $2800.00

20. Darkflower 2123, 2021, screen printed oil and wax on linen over panel, 60 x 48 inches, $7600.00

21. Canopy Breach 2110, 2021, screen printed oil on Yupo synthetic paper, 26 x 20 inches, $1100.00

Breach

Though I work mostly alone, I am always making a space for someone else to occupy, if only temporarily. I use patterns for the visual interest and rhythms they build, but also the motion that results as I warp and torque them on a flat surface. Wallpaper patterns take that space home to domestic walls and the confinement we all experienced during a worldwide quarantine.

Floral forms have been drawing my interest for the last few years. I am not really interested in depicting flowers as they are, so much as coming up with a linear object that has the feel of something floral but also something fabric-like. Why, I am not really sure, but a funeral a few years ago left me attracted to the idea of flowers and their presence as part of the cycles of everyone’s lives: planting flowers to grow in the spring, and the part they play at most human milestones of birth, graduation, marriage, and the end of life. I made a couple attempts that didn’t work as they were too literal, but these are closer to what I wanted.

So I present these objects, flat as they are, to give you a space to occupy for a brief while, that allows for contradictory truths to coexist somewhat peacefully, as you contemplate the possibilities of what could be.

Dorothea Van Camp, May 2021