(Up to date at 11:40 a.m. on 8/30/2022) Tephra Institute of Up to date Artwork in Reston will function the first-ever solo exhibition of figurative painter Dominic Chambers subsequent month.
The exhibit, “What Makes the Earth Shake,” takes its inspiration from literature — particularly the style of magical realism and the symbolism of the veil. The exhibit, which runs from Sept. 10 by means of Nov. 20, highlights the “surreal situations pervading black life.”
“The veil, a product of racial injustice serving as a metaphorical lens by means of which black our bodies are noticed and skilled, seem all through the artist’s work such akin the massive swatch of coloration that obscure the figures,” occasion organizers mentioned.
Chambers was born in 1993 in St. Louis and works in New Haven, Connecticut. His work options vibrant work that discover artwork historic fashions, coloration discipline idea, up to date considerations about race, identification and the significance of leisure.
Right here’s extra from Tephra on Chambers’ background:
Chambers’ work will be present in quite a few personal and public collections, together with the Institute of Up to date Artwork Miami, Miami, NY; Inexperienced Household Basis, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; and Pérez Artwork Museum, Miami, FL. He’s represented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York, NY and Luce Gallery in Torino, Italy.
A gap reception and artist speak is deliberate on Sept. 10 from 6-8 p.m. The institute’s govt director and curator, Jaynelle Hazard, may also attend the artist speak and opening reception. RSVPs are additionally inspired through electronic mail at [email protected].
