About

When finally we stop/outside your door, the you who isn't you/will say nothing more, will wrap/your arms around the me who isn't me,/press a cool ear against my ear,/and hear me tell you I love, and tell you/I love—what else, after all, is left/for the me who isn't me to say?

Anywhere to St. Marks

Selected
works

Cameron prefers to move fluidly between painterly approaches and subject matter. His practice encompasses both abstract and representational art — paintings alongside works on paper.

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Commission
inquiry

Cameron works with individual collectors and interior designers on a limited basis, providing custom artwork according to their vision and needs. To inquire, send a note with any known details about your project.

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Artist
statement

My recent work is borne of ongoing reflection on—and resistance to—what I feel is an over-reliance on mediated experiences of life, usually through one screen or another. They're also in reaction to the glorification of data as a means of understanding the world.

Painting for me is essentially therapeutic, a means of coming back to center—a kind of prayer. My hope is that what emerges in the process of making is something that connects me to you, perhaps in ways we don't yet have language for but feel and understand intuitively. I hope that in seeing myself more clearly, I can better see you—that we might come to recognize each other even in the dark.

Poems

Cameron's poems appear recently or are forthcoming in Five Points, Poetry Northwest, Image, Yemassee, The Florida Review, West Branch, The Shallow Ends, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Ruminate, TYPO, Whiskey Island, Forklift Ohio, Tinderbox, Asheville Poetry Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Read his interview with poet Philip Metres in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Cameron Alexander Lawrence
is a poet and visual artist
from the American southwest.

Born in Tucson, Arizona, Cameron spent most of his life in Phoenix but returned to Tucson to attend the University of Arizona, where he studied English and Creative Writing. His poems appear in many literary journals, and his paintings can be found in private collections in Europe, the United Kingdom, South America, and across the United States. He keeps busy writing and painting in his home studio in Decatur, Georgia.

Cameron is currently at work developing a new literary arts endeavor, Twin Fin Projects, launching summer 2026.

Contact Cameron

Say hello

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