Roger S. Campbell

Roger S. Campbell currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The artist is known for collecting discarded matresses and creating portraits of them. He titles the works according to their brand names, which tend to have an overly-dramatic, humorous appeal to them. Campbell has also been know to use the mattresses themsleves as canvases for his paintings. Campbell's illustrations of these throwaway objects form a personal, curious bond between him and other people's intimate property. His decision to paint mattresses elevates their status, by treating them as subjects worthy of portraiture.