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2024 Painting Spiritual Impressions Todd, Ford Crull, Christopher Hart Chambers, and Scot Borofsky
Christopher Hart Chambers
born1960, in Manhattan.
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Although he has traveled around the world, he has always resided in NYC. He studied fine art at various institutions of learning until it seemed useless to him. By the age of 19 had walked out on various scholarships, grants, and programs, deciding to start pasting original works on paper around the streets of New York City. This rather cavalier move gained him early recognition and led him into a professional career before he even realized how difficult it can be for artists to harness acclaim.
During those early years, Chambers formed the street art militia, AVANT, before opening a venue for various media with his partner, the late great musician, Hayward Earle Peale. The venue, the B. A D. Museum, opened next door to where the New Museum stands today.
Chambers, “I never intended to become an artist. I was born that way. I am influenced by everything I see, hear, smell, touch, and experience. Yet, I don’t see myself as a progenitor of art. I am merely a conduit through which God speaks, albeit besmirched by the lens of my mortal irascibility.
RECENT STATEMENT
I have always painted pictures of things. My thinking was abstract, but the imagery concrete. During the last several years I became increasingly interested in the theme of multiplicity - obsessively repeating an alphabet of emblematic motifs that had developed more or less organically throughout my history. This almost Hindu notion of infinite objects and events adding to and becoming the whole awoke in me a fascination with mechanical (re)production by means of mold making, casting, and industry in general. This line of thinking has taken me towards the notion of a modular form of sculpture that can be broken down and rearranged at will. This lends an industrial functionality to the work that playfully encroaches on architecture and design.
