In May 2025 I had a solo show at the Painting Center in May 2025. I was selected by Chase Cantwell to be a guest artist in the Project space.
"The Painting Center is pleased to present The Navel Is The Center, a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Camilla Fallon in the Project Room. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, April 29, and runs through May 24, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 1 from 5 to 8 pm.Camilla Fallon's paintings masterfully explore the delicate interplay between light, form, and the female body. Through thoughtful close cropping and intentional scale shifts, she creates intriguing, unpredictable spaces that invite contemplation. Her work plays with obscured identity, using tightly cropped body fragments and broken shadows to allow light to conceal and reveal the human form. These luminous patches serve a dual purpose - they illuminate while simultaneously obscuring, creating a captivating push-pull effect.
In her most recent series, Fallon focuses on the navel as both subject and symbol. Pretty Navel places this unassuming feature at the exact center of the composition, demanding attention. As the series progresses, the navel undergoes a striking transformation - evolving from a simple bodily marker to a powerful metaphor. In works like Wound, Navel, and Bloat, it becomes a gaping wound, reflecting deeply personal experiences of aging, surgical scars, infections, and physical discomfort. What begins as neutral anatomy transforms into a poignant emblem of human vulnerability.
"I deliberately obscure my identity and maintain anonymity because these paintings are so revealing," Fallon explains. "That very exposure leaves me feeling vulnerable." This artistic approach has deep roots in her practice. A decade ago, she painted her full body while hiding her face or showing only the back of her head which was a clear nod to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus with its mirrored reflection. Those earlier works radiated confidence, portraying her middle-aged body in bold, energetic poses like handstands, celebrating its strength and flexibility." for more...
https://www.thepaintingcenter.
org/camilla-fallon-the-navel- is-the-center
"Lemon and Aparagus", pandemic drawing (and don't forget the cherries) and "Lemons" are in Right Now It's All Yellow at Drawings Rooms in Jersey City, opens 4/26If you get a chanceDrawing Rooms
Gallery Hours: Th/Fri 4-7p, Sat/Sun, 2-6p
926 Newark Ave, #T101 Jersey City, NJ
I am happy to announce that my painting "Navel" will be included in Being Human, curated by Alix Bailey, Kathleen Beausoleil and Perri Neri at The Painting Center. "The exhibition celebrates the complexities of the human experience – an experience that ignites the artist to explore and reflect on the many layers of humanness such as identity, memory, and connection." The exhibition will be on view from July 16 - August 10, 2024, and will be featured on Artsy with a catalogue of the artists’ works. The reception will be Thursday, July 18th, from 5-8.
https://www.thepaintingcenter.org/being-human
Navel 2023 36 x 48in 20 oil on canvas
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I was selected for a solo show in the Project Room at The Painting Center in April 2025. Chase Cantwell and Kristin Osterberg selected two artists for the two solo exhibitions.
"The Painting Center, an artist-run non-profit gallery, in the heart of Chelsea, announced a call for submissions for two solo exhibition opportunities in the Project Room space of the gallery. The two solo exhibitions will take place in 2025, and each separate exhibition will have a run time of four weeks".
Stay Tuned.
Have a wonderful Summer!!
Camilla
Hill-Stead Museum
Modern Day Monet
Three Drawings in
THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2023
AT DRAWING ROOMS
12/07/23 - 01/20/24 (Holiday break 12/18/2023-1/04/24)
OPENING RECEPTION WEEKEND,
FRIDAY 12/8/23, 6-9P
SATURDAY 12/9/23, AND SUNDAY 12/10/23, 2-6P
Gallery Hours begin Thursday, Dec. 7:
Thurs/Fri, 4-7p; Sat/Sun, 2-6p
Drawing Rooms
926 Newark Ave. #T101
Jersey City, NJ, 07306
Free Parking Lot. Entrance to DR is on Newark Ave.
For more info: https://www.drawingrooms.org/events.html
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Solo Show at La Guardia Community College
Winter Landscapes Show at Miss Porters in Farmington Ct, call 860 418 -9557 for appt,
open Sat and Sun
I began painting landscapes last year after moving to Sharon Ct,. from New York City.I’ve a lways been a studio painter and have rarely worked with landscape except for
occasional trips to the ocean or mountains. What struck me most last year was the exceptionally strong shadows on the snow, the graphic quality seemed related in part to paintings I did in 2015 of construction sites and scaffold which had a strong geometric component.
All of my paintings deal with light. I might call that my primary subject, but I think painters have many subjects, I do love the landscape outside of the window here. That alone was a powerful motivation to paint it.
Group Show at the Coral Door
15 Eighth Avenue, West Village
curated by Jessica Nissen and Lowell BoyersMy piece in the September Issue of Passengers Journal
https://www.passengersjournal.com/volume-3-issue-3-visual-art
Read my piece on p77 in the July Issue of New Observations magazine. guest edited by Brenda Zlamany.