Jules Campbell’s recent work continues to reference her experiences navigating cities and urban environments. Intrigued by the meandering geometrics and grit of city streets, with their attendant subterranean grids of sewers and pipelines, Campbell contemplates and responds to the multilayered complexity that sustains and contains life in the city. Shoreline incursions of rivers, bays and causeways also pique her interest. For much of her work, Campbell employs an intensive process compiling discarded materials in dense multilayered collages and then abrading the surface. This process mirrors the repeated cycles of construction and decay in these types of environments. Other pieces, inspired by underground connections, are investigations of drainage and intersection made using paint and gravity.

Campbell’s work has shown at galleries from Oakland and the east bay to Sacramento. Currently, she works from her Oakland studio and as a founding member of Oakland’s GearBox Gallery exhibits there regularly.