Mabry Campbell Featured in Texas Highways

Posted on Aug 19, 2020

Catherine Couturier Gallery is excited to announce Texas Highways spotlight on gallery artist Mabry Campbell in its most recent publication "The Arts Issue". On the cover of the September 2020 issue, Texas Highways features Campbell's Key To The Houston Water Wall. Inside the issue, you will also find Campbell's photo essay entitled "Lost in Place" as well as an interview conducted by journalist Kimya Kavehkar.

Key To The Houston Water Wall, Mabry Campbell, 2012, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Texas Highways

Texas Highways Cover Featuring
Key To The Houston Water Wall
, 2012

Texas in Wonderland

By Kimya Kavehkar

Mabry Campbell wants you to feel challenged when you look at his photographs. Maybe lost, maybe a little bit small. And after you’re done feeling those things, a sense of wonder.

The Houston-based photographer’s images are simple upon first glance—stark, clean, and black-and-white. Simplicity, in this case, is a clever mask for complexity. In Campbell’s photos, incongruent shapes clash, then seamlessly blend; details abstract larger forms; and light and shadow make the buildings and landscapes you pass by every day remarkable. Viewers might not know what they’re looking at right away, but more time spent with the pictures reveals familiar places rendered in unfamiliar ways.

 

Angles of Light V - LyondellBasell Tower, Mabry Campbell, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Texas Highways

Angles of Light V, LyondellBasell Tower, 2012

Mitre Peak, Mabry Campbell, 2019, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Texas Highways

Mitre Peak, 2019

Campbell first became interested in photography on a fishing boat in Port Aransas. While attending the University of Texas at Austin in the mid-1990s, he would guide fishing trips on weekends for some extra money. With hand-me-down cameras, he started capturing the Gulf of Mexico and the fish in it. “That’s when I started really taking photos with some intention behind them,” he says.

To continue reading, download or pick up a September 2020 issue of Texas Highways.

 

Chapel of Thanks-Giving No. 3, Dallas, Texas, 2017, Mabry Campbell, Catherine Couturier Gallery

Chapel of Thanks-Giving No. 3, Dallas, Texas, 2017

 

Between Two Towers, Houston, Texas, 2018, Mabry Campbell, Catherine Couturier Gallery

Between Two Towers, Houston, Texas, 2018

 

Genesis I - Gus Wortham Memorial Fountain, Houston, Texas, 2015, Mabry Campbell

Genesis I - Gus Wortham Memorial Fountain, Houston, Texas, 2015

 

RR 2810 From Marfa, 2019, Mabry Campbell

RR 2810 From Marfa, 2019

 

Mesquitte Tree Along RR 2810 Near Marfa, 2019, Mabry Campbell

Mesquitte Tree Along RR 2810 Near Marfa, 2019

 

Pennzoil Place Towers, 2015, Mabry Campbell

Pennzoil Place Towers, 2015

 

View more work by Mabry Campbell on his Artist Page.


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