Camilla Marie Dahl (b. 1993) lives and works between Cornwall, Connecticut, and La Bisbal d’Empordà, Spain. She holds a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. In both painting and sculpture, Dahl creates colorful and textured environments that draw on personal landscapes and domestic spaces. Her work explores the concept of home as it is shaped by memory, lived experience, and imagination.
With Warmth in Two Tones, Camilla Marie Dahl brings together two distinct bodies of work that explore the idea of home—not as a fixed place, but as an emotional landscape shaped by memory, imagination, and daily rituals.
Working across painting and sculpture, Dahl constructs spaces that feel both intimate and slightly out of time. One series emerges from a dense, tactile process combining carved foam, crushed marble, and oil paint. The surfaces appear almost sculptural, holding traces of landscapes that echo the artist’s lived environments: barns reminiscent of her childhood in New England, cypress trees lining the driveway of her home in Spain, and tulips that mark the entrance of the house each spring. These motifs are not presented as literal depictions, but as fragments filtered through memory—images softened by familiarity and warmth.
Alongside these textured works, a parallel group of paintings revisits the miniature interiors of the artist’s childhood dollhouse. Reimagined through the perspective of adulthood, these spaces become carefully composed domestic scenes. Rooms are rearranged, artworks appear on the walls, plants and textiles animate the interiors. The painting Ocean View, the largest in the series, captures a living room bathed in deep red light, its walls filled with seascapes. The title hints at a view that may or may not exist—a quiet play between aspiration, imagination, and the comforts of interior life.
Throughout the exhibition, flowers act as subtle anchors. Tulips recur across paintings and sculptural forms, sometimes standing upright, sometimes gently bending as they begin to fade. They function as quiet markers of care, presence, and seasonal renewal— small gestures that transform a house into a home.
Across these works, Dahl constructs environments where texture, color, and light evoke a sense of familiarity that feels both personal and universal. Rather than depicting specific places, the works invite viewers into a shared emotional territory—one where memory, imagination, and the rituals of everyday life quietly overlap.
Dahl’s most recent solo exhibitions include The Way Home, Unit London (2024), Sun and Stone, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2023), and Weathervane, Ross + Kramer Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2023). Her work was featured internationally in group exhibitions that include Fantasyland, Room 57 Gallery, New York (2025), Transfigurations of Reality, OPA Projects, Miami (2025), Land of Internal Wonders, Natasha Arselan Projects, London, UK (2023), Reverón/Solar, El Castillete, Madrid, Spain (2023), oand Lost in the Worlds, F2T Gallery, Paris, France (2022). Dahl was a recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in both 2019 and 2021. She has participated in El Castillete Artist Residency, Madrid Spain; Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency, Cuttyhunk, MA; and La Ceiba Grafica Artist Residency, Veracruz Mexico.
