David Allen Chamberlain is a playful polymath, a serious enquirer and an artful thinker who gets away with making a living at it. He has been a professional artist for almost five decades, through the usual thick & thin, and still believes that “it is all good”.
He strives to make dimensional paintings and painterly sculptures whose abstract imagery is about musical patterns, themes and relationships. Ideas become compositions.
The joy of the arts is that we are all participants: whoever we are comes out — in the making and in the appreciation.
“Perception is its own Reward”
Duett MMM Helios Overture
Paintings
For generations a great deal of aesthetic ground has been covered with painting, yet there is still an abundant and beckoning opportunity for discovering new visual approaches, directions and ideas.
My work in developing iconic, emotional and dimensional paintings is an attempt to configure wet pigments into sculpted forms that reveal, invent and articulate musical imagery. Always new for me, these are timeless virtuoso marks made by hand and eye that might have been created a hundred years ago, or a century from now.
“You are creating artwork that no one else has done, and that no one else can do”
2012 quote by a museum director (anonymous) viewing my work
Dream Sail Opus
Collections
There are currently over 130 Chamberlain works in the permanent collections of 44 art museums around the world.
There are over 50 Chamberlain artworks in the art collections of 38 major corporations and institutions, here and abroad.
Other works are on loan, and in company office collections.
30 Chamberlain artworks have been commissioned by various collectors and arts-related entities.
Musical Duett DAC 3244
Inspirations
I have devoted a lifetime trying to understand why I see images when I hear music — and see music when I hear images. I am not sure what this means or how it happens, but I love the feeling, and I count on it… although I have no idea how it works in my mind’s eye and ear. You can imagine my curiosity (and relief) when scientists began to talk about synesthesia, giving some sort of identity to what I thought for many years was a strange, scary and sometimes exhilarating cognitive quirk.
Fish Notes DAC 2181
Contact
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