Cameron Keith Gainer

Cameron Keith Gainer

Cameron
Keith Gainer

b. 1973      STUDIO IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Midwest Region of USA
Cameron Gainer
Cameron Keith Gainer works in a broad range of media and approaches. From his bustling Minneapolis studio comes a quarterly journal (on “art, politics, philosophy, and culture”), sculptures made from 4.6 billion-year-old meteorites, films, paintings, and installation works. Underpinning all is a keen interest in fundamental concepts, such as time and light.
 
For the video work Eternal Hour, Gainer extracted precisely one second from the introductory title credits of Days of Our Lives, the longest running television program in history. Looping the footage creates a video work without beginning or end, let alone a narrative arc. Central to the composition is the image of the hourglass with its “sands of time” never able to fulfill its function. Time is suspended in a meditative—and frustratingly repetitive—stasis.

 

I consider myself a conceptual artist because it is more about the idea. The gesture of the idea can be manifested in many forms. A lot of these pieces start with these very elemental ideas—time, light. They are things that are really connected back to cinema.

Cameron Keith Gainer