Tom Chambers Meet

Tom Chambers

Austin, TX

About Tom Chambers

Austin, TX

Tom R. Chambers is a documentary photographer and visual artist, and he is currently working with the pixel as Suprematist Art ("Pixelscapes") and Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" ("Black Square Interpretations"). He has over 100 exhibitions to his credit. His "My Dear Malevich" project has received international acclaim, and it was shown as a part of the "Suprematism Infinity: Reflections, Interpretations, Explorations" exhibition in conjunction with the "100 Years of Suprematism" conference at the Atrium Gallery, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York City (2015).

His "Digital Suprematism" series that is showcased on TurningArt works with shape, form, color, and line to produce abstractions that when greatly enlarged, provide an excitation factor via the elements of Geometry. These bold pieces … stemming from the pixel … rival Color-field, Minimalist, and Geometric art works created by painters over many decades. Their design aspects complement industrial and aesthetic surroundings.

An art critic states:

"This visual poetry contains the ironic connection between Modernist philosophy which moved visual art from figurative representational pictures of the physical world into an expressive and emotional world of abstraction; and, the digital realm in which the purely abstract unit of one pixel off – one pixel on, has been utilized to reproduce once again, with breath taking accuracy the physical world. Now, Chambers' has shown a path by which this tool, which so often serves hyper-reality, is forced to reveal the abstract soul at its very core. Was Malevich thinking in "pixels" without knowledge of the term and even many decades before the fact of the technology, which utilizes this basic component? His association with Futurism might account for this sort of metaphysical connection. And, so it is that we have the aspect of this exhibition that straddles a whole century of art. From the earliest beginnings of Modern art to the latest developments in the tools by which the newest works are being made. The ground that is covered is immense, but the time between the two virtually disappears in this exhibit. It seems that with 'My Dear Malevich' it is not a matter of what is old (or new) being new (or old) again; but that what is 'old' and 'new' exists simultaneously. That which is 'gone' is also, at the very same time, ever-present."

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Selected Exhibitions

  • National Center of Contemporary Arts
    Minsk, Belarus, 2024
  • D-Art Gallery, 24th International Conference Information Visualisation Conference
    Melbourne, Australia and Vienna, Austria, 2020
  • D-Art Gallery, 23rd International Information Visualization Conference
    Paris France and Adelaide, Australia, 2019
  • D-Art Gallery, 22nd International Conference on Information Visualization
    Salerno, Italy, 2018
  • Tolijatti State Art Museum
    Russia, 2017
  • Digital Art Community (DAC), SIGGRAPH 2017
    Los Angeles, California, 2017
  • Museum of New Art
    Troy, Michigan , 2015
  • CaviArt Gallery, Russian Cultural Center
    Houston, Texas, 2015
  • Harriman Institute, Columbia University
    New York City, 2015
  • American University of Paris
    Paris, France, 2011
  • Eumeria Gallery
    Tokyo, Japan, 2011
  • Art Gallery, Fine Arts Department, Zhaoqing University
    Zhaoqing, China, 2007
  • Novosibirsk State Art Museum
    Novosibirsk, Russia, 2007
  • National Institute of Design
    Ahmedabad, India, 2006
  • Kumho Art Center
    Gwangju, South Korea, 1997
  • National Gallery of Zimbabwe
    Harare, Zimbabwe, 1995
  • The Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University
    Dayton, Ohio, 1992
  • Faculty Club Gallery, Brown University
    Providence, Rhode Island, 1987
  • The Silver Bullet Gallery
    Providence, Rhode Island, 1986
  • Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College
    Amarillo, Texas, 1985

Press and Accolades

  • American Photo Magazine/Dyer Street Portraiture
    March, 1986
  • American Photo Magazine/Dyer Street Portraiture
    July, 1989
  • Austin American-Statesman/Hot City
    February, 1992
  • Providence Monthly/Retro Providence
    October, 2016
  • Providence Journal Bulletin/Mother's 45s
    April, 1990
  • The Phoenix's New Paper/Mother's 45s
    April, 1990
  • Kumho Culture Monthly/People to People
    May, 1997
  • The Sunday Mail Magazine/Variations on the Dan Mask
    December, 1995
  • Providence Journal-Bulletin/Descendants 350
    October, 1986
  • Warwick Beacon
    June, 1987

Education

  • Midwestern State University, BS
    Wichita Falls, Texas,1969 
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