My Wanderlust
Cam Zebrun, Multi-media Artist
EXHIBIT August 15 to October 24, 2025
RECEPTION August 15 from 5 – 7pm, Talk at 6pm
ARTIST STATEMENT
My evolving fascination with exploring ideas about our environment in visual, abstract, and non-traditional ways energizes and motivates me. By observing and collecting images, experiences, and emotional responses, my artwork records the patterns and forces that nature enacts on the environment; the essence of nature’s abstract forms interests me the most.
Recently, my engagement with the natural world has introduced a wide range of sources, including an examination of geological time and its effects on the land, our human need to catalog, interrupt, and conquer our environment, and the impacts of climate change brought on by our activities.
My practice focuses on sculpture and collage. My sculptures are neither wholly paintings nor sculptures, although they embody both processes. They are made from wood and painted with oils and watercolors. My sculptures utilize the color and textures offered by their wooden surfaces. I often incorporate colored plexiglass and collage elements as well. Working with my hands to create my sculptures is satisfying, recognizing the importance of fine craftsmanship to strengthen my statement. My audience responds to my sculptures’ coloration, mysterious abstract compositions, and unique forms. The convex shapes I use suggest abstract representations of kayaks, surfboards, and arched forms found in nature, like the edge of a waterfall, the profile of a mountain ridge, or the crest of a wave. I also reference the language of cartography and topography on my sculptures’ surfaces.
ARTIST BIO
Cameron is a sculptor and photographer who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cameron’s artwork represents his interest in creating objects of fine craftsmanship and illustrates his preoccupation with presenting landscape subject matter in abstract and non-traditional ways. Cameron’s artwork is represented in many private, corporate, and museum collections.
Cameron has an extensive record of solo and group exhibitions nationally including Devos Art Museum, Pulse Art Fair/Miami, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Scope Art Fair/Miami, Scope Art Fair/New York City, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, St Mary’s University, St John’s University, Silverwood Park, St Anthony, MN, Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Cameron has received three Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grants in 2005, 2015, and 2019 and a Creative Individual Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2025. In 2023, Cameron received a project Space Grant with Kolman & Reeb Gallery, Minneapolis. Cameron was an Artist in Residence at Grand Marias Artist Colony and at the Petrified Forest National Park. Cameron is represented by Kolman & Reeb Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, and is a former member of Form+Content Gallery in Minneapolis. Cameron was employed at the Walker Art Center full-time as Director of Program Services from 1991 – 2017. he managed the technical installation of artworks for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden renovation and all of Walker’s Visual Arts Program exhibitions.
Cameron earned a master’s degree in fine art at Cranbrook Academy of Art and a bachelor’s in fine art at Cleveland Institute of Art.
This activity is made possible from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
