Campay: New Paintings [signed] [first edition]

Dennis Campay is a 52 year old painter based in Atlanta and Jacksonville. Whitewashed porticoes and weathered steps descending into cool dark water are his recurrent images, yet his paintings are not memorials to antebellum architecture, nor is the South his subject. In this first book on the artist, noted critic John T. Spike tells the story of Campay's early travails and unending apprenticeship, and concludes that none of those lessons was lost, or useless: 'His age-old themes of homelessness and exile have never been more urgently felt: this is why his paintings are new.' And Spike paraphrases Faulkner to pose the question, 'Can the South's best new painter make his mark outside his native soil?' Dennis Campay: New Paintings is the evidence he is making that mark already. Campay: New Paintings contains 70 full page reproductions of mixed-media works by Southern painter Dennis Campay.