QUEUE: Cydney Camp

Library Street Collective is excited to introduce QUEUE, a video-based platform devoted to providing an intimate, first-hand look into the daily lives of artists. Each series includes five short videos, all of which are shot and recorded by the featured artist themself. Raw, authentic, and straight from the source, the series is based in storytelling, chronicling a set range of topics from childhood memories to studio practice to major influences and values. The casual nature of the platform paired with the artist’s power of agency throughout its creation offers a unique and relatable approach to familiarizing the viewer with the face behind the work.

The inaugural iteration of QUEUE follows Detroit-native Cydney Camp: from growing up as a musician to working a corporate job prior to embracing her art practice full time, viewers will be invited to learn about the simple details that make up Camp’s character as well as the major life events that have guided her to where she is today. In her work, Camp lovingly deconstructs the figures of focus to explore the complexities of contemporary life to depict Black subjects existing in familiar yet alternative realities; their multitude of identities and modes of being probe a nonlinear lived experience in real time. A number of works created for QUEUE are of the first Camp has painted from live sittings, a process she’s warmly adapted since welcoming a new community of artists and friends at Cranbrook Academy of Art where she will be a second-year painting student next fall.

QUEUE: Cydney Camp launches Friday, June 17th, 2022 and runs through July 17, 2022.