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11.01.07 Leroy Campbell Launches "The Gullah Collection" Visual Art Series |
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November 2007-
"The Gullah Collection" The latest body of work by self-taught visual fine artist Leroy Campbell, is a collection that brings awareness about people from Africa, who where enslaved, and brought to the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia in the 1700's. These people were a close knit community of Gullah and Geechee people and he was raised amongst them. By using a mixed media collage on canvas such as rich colors of acrylics, vintage fabrics from clothes, quilts, sweet grass basket bottoms, uncooked rice, wood grained paper, rag paper, charcoal, fish nets, gels, stones and newspaper, viewers can get a taste of his rich history and culture as a Gullah person. "The Gullah Collection," features news print as its most dominant feature. The use of the newspaper signifies more than one denotation. On one hand, it represents Gullah people’s rituals of witchcraft that by preparing the walls of their houses with news print protected them against and rid of curses and dangerous spirits. On the other hand, it serves as a time capsule. Upon a closer glance it triumphantly details the palpable, unwavering strength and perseverance of people of African ancestry during the late 1800's through mid 1960's.  Night Class
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