 The Grass Is Always, 2004 acrylic on canvas, 23.5 x 23.5" Beau Chamberlain Sweet Tomorrow Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce "Sweet Tomorrow", the first solo exhibition of paintings by Beau Chamberlain. Inspired by the ability of nature to attract, camouflage, and repel, Beau Chamberlain's precise paintings hover between abstraction and figuration. Beginning with elusive imagery from botany and entomology, Chamberlain embraces crossovers between divergent biological categories, the pliable and resistant, from one ecosystem to another. Evoking lunar landings, molecular imaging and Chinese landscape painting, Chamberlain's work explores mutation, imitation and definability. In "I'm Worried I'm Always Alone", 2004, Chamberlain incises a pristine white surface with volumetric shapes that both recede and swell. Other outcroppings include mosaic patterns of dusty gray, brown and taupe. Emerging from the snowy white surface, a green stalk unfolds into the body of a hybrid insect/bird, its heavy draping wings anointed with feathery gills. Inscribed in a creamy square, Chamberlain's "Remember When You Fell", 2005, fills up with clusters of red and pink cellular platelets suggesting layers of fallen cherry blossom petals. In another passage, fluid drips of blue, green and yellow coalesce to form the architecture of a splitting trunk or waterfall. Beau Chamberlain was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976 and received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2003. His work has been presented in exhibitions at Jessica Murray Projects and at Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY. Chamberlain lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition: February 25 - March 19, 2005 Gallery hours: Tue- Sat 11 am - 6 pm Jessica Murray Projects 150 Eleventh Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets) USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 633 9606 Fax +1 212 2633 9607 Email info@jessicamurrayprojects.com www.jessicamurrayprojects.com |
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