| Kamil Dawson Born 1979, Sebastopol, CA EDUCATION 2009 MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2002 BFA California College of Arts and Crafts, San
Francisco, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2008 Graven
Images Café Royal, San Francisco, CA 2006 Untitled Ju De Jupe, Walnut Creek, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Show California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Illusion
Helps Orange Ally Projects, San Francisco, CA Another
Show About Love Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2008 California
History Walk Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Multi
Species Salon Play Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 Girl
Stock Mama Buzz Café, Oakland, CA Ripples Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA 2006 Annual
Member’s Showcase Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Bay
Area Currents 2006 Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland CA 2005 Fall Salon Bohemiarama, San Francisco, CA Open
House The Crucible, Oakland, CA Café
Show Art Work SF, San Francisco, CA 2003 Pro
Arts Open Studios Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA 2002 Solo
Senior Exhibit California College of Arts and Crafts BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cheng, DeWitt. “San Francisco Art Galleries Openings First
Thursday; 08.07.08” Art Business.com, August 12, 2008. Baker, Kenneth. “Bay Area Currents 2006, The Oakland Art
Gallery” San Francisco Chronicle, May 16, 2006. AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS: 2008 Richard K. Price Scholarship California College of the Arts Scholarship Linda Jones Memorial Fine Arts Scholarship Ora Keck Scholarship Fund Ethel O. Gardner P.E.O. Scholarship Fund 2007 Gift Aid Scholarship California College of the Arts Scholarship
Artist Statement My subjects are found by
default, chosen from already existing images within the public sphere. Having
posed for someone else’s lens, they are culled from Alfred Hitchcock films,
utopian communities, and online photos from Flicker.com. Each painting uses the
female subject as an agent to collide with the ironies found within pleasure,
desire, female sexuality, and cultural identity. My research as an artist has
taken me into a realm of painting where the singularity of an image takes
prescient over how the image is painted. Like singular points in mathematics,
each image that I choose to paint is treated separately in order to analyze its
function. Together, these paintings are defined by the connections that the
viewer finds between them.
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