Apprehensive to painting in the traditional sense, Lavialle Campbell approaches geometric abstractionthrough the use of quilted thread and cotton, rejecting western-based art-making materials, and aligningher self with processes historically associated with “women's work”, all the while challenging the veryidea of what a painting can be. Through this approach, Campbell's works attain a certain zen — herformal interests in Modernism, Japanese Minimalism, and contemporary architecture workingsimultaneously in support of her non-representational quilted abstractions.In The Shadows is a new body of works that address the dark and shadowy spaces that are enduredwithin a lifetime of illness, while at the same time discovering the resilience and potential for beautywithin those shadows.