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Mark Chamberlain Untitled
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Mark Chamberlain (1967-)
He is a fine art photographer, as well as an environmental, assemblage and performance artist. He owns BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, begun in 1973 together with photographer Jerry Burchfield, exhibiting photography, visual and performance art. He has used various media and his 2,400 square foot gallery to create his own groundbreaking artworks, many of which have helped preserve our natural environment. His artworks and those exhibited by hundreds of other artists at BC Space over the years have influenced the perception of photography as art, locally, nationwide and worldwide.
Art reviewer Peter Clothier writes about Mark Chamberlain in the Huffington Post: "His pictures seek passionately to preserve momentary events before they are gone, to mark the occasion of their passing, or sometimes to draw attention to their transition as they wither and die. He brings his meticulous craftsmanship to the creation of images that convey that reality in its smallest, most intimate detail. In his assemblage work, that same fascination with the mystery and temporality of objects leads him to extricate them from their original, mostly superannuated context, and invent for them a new, often whimsical new life in art."
In the artist's words:
"My first major body of work, after returning from the military in 1969, was the Dubuque Passages, collected mostly from 1972 through 1976," Mark explains. "I often returned to Dubuque, Iowa to visit family, friends and the river, but began to see my own roots with fresh eyes. "In the mid seventies, I shifted my camera's focus to the California urban landscape, and my adopted home of Laguna Beach. I changed to a larger format camera, added color to the palette, and began a new series entitled Future Fossils, steel and glass structures with the energetic colors, in the glossy billboards advertising the new age, dominated the western landscape. They seemed almost super realistic to me, and the newly minted Cibachrome print material allowed me to convey these impressions."
Source:
www.contemporary-art-dialogue.com |
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