Shaking Traces by Cameron Jamie

Shaking Traces is an artist book designed and produced by Cameron Jamie with the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, 2023, cover is heavy black cardstock, with a red belly band, 84pps, black drawings on yellow paper, copy machine reproduction edition of 400 copies.

With his works on paper, his artist’s books, sculptures, photographs, performances, and films, Cameron Jamie (Los Angeles, CA, US, 1969 — Paris, FR) has for some thirty years been exploring identity, psychological and physical transformations of the self, and correspondences between humans and nature. In his work, the boundaries between the representational and the abstract become blurred.

Jamie’s free-form drawing process and his constant acts of drawing with his pen form the foundation of his entire oeuvre, together with his inquiry of intuition, chance, layering, destruction, and rebuilding of the images in his line works. This exhibition will therefore focus for the first time on the crossroads of these specific artistic mediums — drawings, monotypes, lithographs, and drawings on ceramic clay — and on his diary-like self-published artist’s books. It will reveal his method of working in layers using ink, pencil, oil and pastel colors, washes, glaze, and even coffee for his materials, as well as Jamie’s openness to chance in his close collaboration with the material itself.

– from Cameron Jamie: Shaking Traces
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Altstadt (Rupertinum) SALZBURG | AUSTRIA OCT 01, 2022 – FEB 05, 2023

“EVEN WITHIN an already markedly diverse oeuvre, Cameron Jamie’s recent work is initially difficult to place. Despite certain iconographic continuities—found most notably in Jamie’s primary leitmotif, the mask—his newly atmospheric pen-and-wash drawings, brightly colored ceramics, and intimate Xerox artists’ books appear to depart starkly from the documentary impulse behind his much-celebrated films.”
–Minor Threat: The Art of Cameron Jamie by Branden W. Joseph

$ 125.00