2001
John Chamberlain, in full John Angus Chamberlain, was an American sculptor, painter, photographer, printmaker, and filmmaker whose Abstract Expressionist works were characterized by an emotional approach to concept and execution.
Chamberlain studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1951–52), where he began working in metals, and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina (1955–56). In 1957 he had his first one-man show in Chicago. His early pieces were made from welded iron rods, but he later used such materials as heat-shaped Plexiglass, paper, polyurethane, industrial rubber, brown paper bags, and aluminum foil before returning in 1974 to the use of auto body parts. His first sculpture to employ car parts was Shortstop (1957), which featured rusty fenders that he had found in the yard of painter and friend Larry Rivers.
Chamberlain’s sculptures are typified by Mr. Press (1961), a construction of fragments from automobiles, crumpled and jammed together to create an effect of isolated, frozen movement. He often coated his pieces with bright industrial paints. During the 1970s oil crisis, Chamberlain often incorporated oil barrels into his work, notably in the series Socket and Kiss (1979). For a brief interlude, he used car spray paint to create works that combined stencil and Action painting. Chamberlain was also involved in video and film and produced the cinematic Wide Point (1968); he later dabbled in drawing and printmaking.
In 1971 Chamberlain’s work was given a retrospective by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
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Flashback V, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011) Title: Flashback V Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 172/175, plus proofs Size: 28 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed a...
Lithograph
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Flashback VII, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011) Title: Flashback VII Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 119/175, plus proofs Size: 28 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed...
Lithograph
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Flashback II, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011) Title: Flashback II Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 88/175, plus proofs Size: 28 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed a...
Lithograph
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Flashback III, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011) Title: Flashback III Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 119/175, plus proofs Size: 28 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed...
Lithograph
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Flashback I, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011) Title: Flashback I Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 50/175, plus proofs Size: 28 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed an...
Lithograph
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Flashback IV, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011) Title: Flashback IV Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 153/175, plus proofs Size: 28 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed ...
Lithograph
Last Form Of Servitude
By John Chamberlain
Located in New York, NY
Color monotype on Arches paper. Signed in pencil and with the artist's signature black ink stamp in lower right. Titled in pencil in lower margin. Published by Novak Graphics, Tor...
Monotype, Paper
Flashback VII, Abstract Lithograph by John Chamberlain
By John Chamberlain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Chamberlain Title: Flashback VII Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Paper Size: 28 x 20 inches
Lithograph
Untitled #45, from III Form and Void Full
By Laura Letinsky
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 9
Archival Pigment
Untitled
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like water, Gleason’s surfaces are quietly in motion, their iridescent paints subtly shifting hues as light plays across them. In each of the canvases, sharp diagonals bifurcate the ...
Silver
