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Home Exhibitions Roberts Projects represents Dominic Chambers in Los Angeles
Roberts Projects represents Dominic Chambers in Los Angeles
Roberts Projects in Los Angeles now represents Dominic Chambers. In his practice, Chambers explores the lived experience of the Blacks through figurative paintings that depict fleeting moments of leisure, contemplation and camaraderie. Chambers has exhibited at such institutions as the Luce Gallery in Turin, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa and the August Wilson African-American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh. He will present a solo exhibition at the gallery in 2022.
Roberts Projects is thrilled to announce representation of New Haven-based artist Dominic Chambers.
Drawing loosely upon a tradition of contemporary mystical realism, Dominic Chambers creates paintings that immediately reference literary narratives cited in books, various mythologies and Black history, both in its oral tradition and written account. His current practice is invested in exploring Black introspection, the Black body, and the construction of lived Black experiences, as seen through moments of quiet contemplation and meditation, reading, leisure, and the camaraderie between friends. An avid reader since childhood, literature and the dialectics of language continue to play a major role in both his life and work.
In his psychological figurative paintings, Chambers builds a relationship between history, painting, and the imagination to center his respective ideas of where and how to find joy through respite, one that is both real and longed for.
His most recent series, inspired by Modernist Josef Albers, expands upon the investigation of color theory established by Albers and introduces the figurative subject to create a new discourse around identity and perception. As with his "Primary Magic" and "Wash" paintings, Chambers' atmospheric landscapes defy characterization by means of their transformative power over his subjects. The end-result are paintings of spectacular visuality and, relatedly, mediated pursuits defined by their optimism.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1993, Dominic Chambers currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2016 and later, his MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2019, where he studied painting. Chambers has exhibited both in the United States and internationally, including Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; MIAD Contemporary Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA; and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Upcoming projects include a solo show at Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy. He has also participated in a number of residencies including the prestigious Yale Norfolk Summer residency in New Haven, CT and the New York Studio Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY.
A comprehensive survey with the artist is planned for 2022, and a catalogue will be published by Roberts Projects in conjunction with the exhibition. In association with Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy.
Artist Dominic Chambers Has a New Vision of Black Intellectualism
Blue Sugar baby (Moses in Blue) by Dominic Chambers
Artist Dominic Chambers' Blue Sugar baby (Moses in Blue), part of his Primary Magic series, depicts a Black woman reading a book on the couch — her head supported slightly by her propped-up arm, as she gazes at the text in front of her. Hues of blue wash the subject and her abstracted landscape. Red, green, and yellow tones adorn the painting throughout. Much like the rest of Chambers' current work, Blue Sugar baby (Moses in Blue), exists at the intersection between imagination and reality, as the 27-year-old artist uses his work to explore the relationship between leisure and Black intellectualism.
Although Chambers has always had an aptitude for reading and contemplation, he didn't grow up thinking he could be an intellectual. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Chambers was raised in a poor, single-mother household. When he was young, no one could watch him outside of school, but Deanna, the youngest of his six sisters. Deanna, an avid reader herself, would take them to the library regularly, sometimes even as early as 6 a.m. During periods of Chambers' life when he and his family were houseless, they would sleep in parks across from the St. Louis Public Library, where he would often go to read before the shelter opened.
However, when it came to school, Chambers was largely ambivalent. "I loved drawing, reading, and painting, but I just wasn't enthusiastic about the educational system," Chambers told Observer, "In school, we weren't reading Toni Morrison. We weren't reading James Baldwin. We were taking classes about the greatness of white people." In 2011, Chambers graduated high school, but college was not a serious consideration. If his high school girlfriend hadn't threatened to break up with him if he didn't apply, he wouldn't have ended up at Florissant Valley Community College in Ferguson, Missouri.
Artist Dominic Chambers at rest Don Brodie
There, he learned that another artist in his program named Aaron Fowler found his way to Yale University through a fellowship for artists called the Yale Norfolk summer residency program. At the time, Chambers didn't know there was a space for artists at a place like Yale. As someone with a naturally competitive and determined nature, Chambers set his sights on getting into the program and his sophomore year, he transferred to the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He was accepted into the Norfolk program in 2015, and with the residency under his belt, took the next step of applying to the Yale School of Art for graduate school. "I thought, my genius has been realized!" Chambers says. "This is all going to happen." But he was rejected.
If he wanted a shot at getting into Yale the next year, Chambers knew he had less than a year to reinvent his portfolio and beef up his CV. Chambers rented a studio apartment in Milwaukee and became a member of the Plum Blossom Initiative, a program that one of his instructors started that aimed to give artists a leg up in professional development. During this time, he created his Apple Spirits collection, a series of drawings that show spirits looming over the heads of Black bodies, as a way to challenge the dichotomy between Black masculinity and vulnerability. "As a Black male growing up in an impoverished neighborhood, you aren't taught to embrace your imagination like you are taught to become strong and endure the world," Chambers says. "Because the world we're a part of has very real consequences."
Apple Spirits (Morning) by Dominic Chambers Dominic Chambers
In 2017, Chambers was accepted into Yale University School of Art, and in 2019, he graduated with an M.F.A. While Chambers learned how to create in a much more structured way at Yale, he says the work he produced during his time there wasn't very good. It wasn't until post-grad that he created his three main bodies of work: Wash Paintings, Primary Magic, and After Albers. While color themes vary between these bodies, all three depict Black people in moments of leisure and contemplation in an abstract space. He describes this space between reality and imagination as magical realism. Juxtaposed with subjects reading or in contemplation, there are surreal aspects to the paintings, whether it be extremities among colors, or an exaggeration of elements that may not belong.
"When I think about magical realism, I think about books and how they are a tool to improve or enhance your imagination," Chambers says. "You can only create these spaces between reality and imagination if you're stimulated through an intellectual tool such as reading." Chambers also places his subjects in imaginary landscapes, because urban environments are where one usually expects to see Black bodies with some form of trauma inflicted upon them.
However, rooted in Chambers' use of magical realism is his aim to challenge the idea of perception. "We don't always understand what it is that we're looking at, and our experiences may not always be as clear as we think they are," Chambers says. By painting Black people reading and in moments of leisure, Chambers wants to change the perception that Blackness and intellectualism cannot coexist.
Nowhere You'll Know by Dominic Chambers Dominic Chambers
"Historically speaking, Black people weren't seen as being those who contributed to the intellectual landscape," Chambers says. "We were not allowed to become educated, because the consequences of doing such could be death. But right now, the contribution of Black intellectuals seems to be quite significant. Black voices are being heard in a way that they haven't necessarily been heard before, and what I want to do with this work is have a conversation about that."
Chambers' most recent works and his formative Apple Spirit drawings are not dissimilar to each other — in both subjects are transported into an imaginary space, showcasing the idea that everything requires more than a singular look. Without taking time to process and think, what we assume is true is often just reactionary. Chambers says color, too, is about perception. His attraction to the late German-born artist Joseph Albers, who he largely drew inspiration from in his After Albers collection, comes from Albers' refusal to accept colors as they are. "You could show Albers a green and ask him, is this green?" Chambers explains. "And he will say to you, well, it depends. He understands that it's green in your head, but it could be something else relative to something that is another color."
Although Chambers' subjects engage in slowing down and catching up with one's self, the artist struggles with striking a balance between being lazy and hyper-productive. However, for Chambers, productivity just means showing up — arriving at the studio, being present, and using the time to either make art, watch a movie, read a book, or listen to albums. Chambers says his incessant need to be productive doesn't bother him. How he utilizes that productivity is what matters most. "I think my responsibility is to create images of my community members at rest, and as people who are capable of engaging with literary tools and escapism," Chambers says.
After Albers (Kenturah) by Dominic Chambers Dominic Chambers
Chambers has a solo show coming up in September at the Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, but he says his current focus is just falling back in love with his art. This past year, Chambers was also featured on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list for being one of the most promising young artists of this generation. Since then, Chambers says that many people's perceptions of him have changed. "Once you're attached to a certain kind of name, there's this kind of assumption about the quality of artist that you are," Chambers says. "Navigating that has been really new to me, because I still feel like Dominic. I still make mistakes, and I still work hard. I think that I want to make sure everyone else understands that too, you know?"
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She was told that she was either really brave, or really stupid.
By Maija Kappler
Shetu Modi, HuffPost Canada
Mozhdah (pronounced MUHJ-dah) Jamalzadah was in her early 20s when her father wrote the lyrics to what would become the song that launched her career. At that point, "Afghan Girl" wasn't yet a song, but a poem he wrote about a group of young girls who had been attacked with acid by Taliban operatives as a warning about what happens to girls who go to school.
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And that was just the beginning of her story, which went on to involve involve performing the song for Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House, hosting her own Afghan talk show, becoming the "Oprah of Afghanistan," sleeping with a gun under her pillow, and eventually being forced off Afghan TV for her own safety.
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Maija Kappler Maija is an associate lifestyle editor at HuffPost Canada.
Shetu Modi Senior Video Producer, Living, HuffPost Canada
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