Kimberly Camp

Kimberly Camp’s decades as an artist began in downtown Camden New Jersey, where she grew up with a Carnegie Library on the corner and an art supply store across the street. From a family of artists, Camp deepened her visual vocabulary by studying the origins and traditions of cultures in museums and with people around the world. Her work evidences her appreciation of the relationship of ancestry and spirit to the richness of patterns, colors and textures. Her paintings serve as an offering to her ancestors and their journey from sharecropping in South Carolina to the steel mills in western Pennsylvania. Ms. Camp is among the matriarchal African American artists with extensive careers who were kept in the shadows and are now being brought to light. Her remarkable paintings remind us of a rich history that is continually renewed, rediscovered, and reinterpreted for the contemporary moment.