NYAB Event - Christopher Hart Chambers “The Sporting Fate”

Christopher Hart Chambers “The Sporting Fate”

Causey Contemporary

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This exhibition, featuring Christopher Hart Chambers’ recent sculptures and paintings, is his first solo show with the gallery.

Christopher refers to his work as “idiosyncratically American” because it references hot rods, surfboards, psychedelia, and romanticized fantasy space craft/techno-science fiction adventure vessels while also utilizing an acute alphabet of personal emblems and cryptic motifs. Christopher is also involved with curating exhibitions and writing for several periodicals including Flash Art, Contemporary, Tema Celeste, d’Art, Sculpture, and others. Yet throughout the years of tangential activities he has remained focused on the original aim which is prolifically producing and exhibiting his work widely; starting primarily as a painter, shifting to sculpture in the late 1990s, and finally conjoining them.

Christopher is a passionate traveler who likes to see where the paint, the color, and the light leads. Artistically his main aim is to explore uncharted territory: to discover, and so he does not start with any idea in mind. In essence, his work is completely improvisational. He analogizes his modus operandi to that of a jazz or rock and roll band, “Once the rhythm is set, the melody is free to improvise.” That is to say, once a working methodology has been established – the materials, sequence of application, etcetera, the creative means and the physical support structure in place: the artist is free to fire at will.

Christopher Hart Chambers was born in New York City where he continues to live and work. He attended the High School of Music and Art and various other NYC based institutions of fine art learning. He first exhibited professionally as a teenager in the East Village and Soho in the early and mid 1980s.While his early work concentrated strictly on painting, later Chambers incorporated sculptural elements as well.

His efforts have been featured recently in solo exhibitions at venues including: The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY; Lyceum Gallery @ Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead , NY; Rupert Ravens Contemporary – Newark, NJ; Art Sites – Riverhead, NY; Universal Concepts Unlimited, NYC; Galerie Rienzo, NYC.

Christopher Hart Chambers’ works are held in the public and corporate collections of several international institutions including: Washington D.C. Convention Center; Omnicare International (New York); MPOWER Corporation, currently Quovadx Inc. (Albuquerque, NM), as well as numerous private collectors.

“Although my work is conceptually abstract it is rooted in concrete imaginary. This is essentially a surrealist model. Another way of putting it is to state that the work always involves pictures of “things.” In three dimensions they are the things rather than representations thereof. These “things” are distilled from an alphabet of personal motifs and emblems which are often repeated throughout a single composition and obsessively utilized in numerous works. This fascination with mantric repetition has lead me to an interest in fabricating these visual devices in three dimensions by building molds and casting the forms, thereby developing a genus of modular sculpture which may be rearranged at will. All these machinations have finally conjoined; I like to call it The Apex Theory: Two lines of thought meet at a designated point. The pinnacle or apex is determined by the length and angles of the sides, or metaphorically, the difficulty of the ascent. It has taken me almost half a century to arrive here.”