REBUS WORKS

I’m JD Campbell (he/they), a Black figure painter and printmaker from Durham, North Carolina. My art centers the experiences of working-class Black people. Scale is important to me; it’s essential that Black people take up space in our art, and large canvases are a potent way to achieve this. The bold geometry and textured backgrounds in my portraits underscore surreal aspects of Blackness and the social, physical, and financial displacement that permeates our history.

A graduate of Durham School of the Arts, JD Campbell is an acrylic figure painter, printmaker, and poet from Durham, North Carolina. Campbell currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and works out of Antfarm Studios, with recent showings at VAE Raleigh and the Trust Gallery of the Durham Art Guild.