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Untitled

John Chamberlain

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Artwork details

Artist
John Chamberlain
Title
Untitled
Description

Untitled
1994
Screenprint on crinkled aluminum
Approximately: 36 x 36 inches

Edition: 30

American artist John Chamberlain (1927-2011) is known for his works incorporating scrap parts from automobiles; he welds together the pieces to make large-scale, multi-colored freestanding sculptures and wall hangings.

Chamberlain, born in Rochester, Indiana, attended the Art Institute of Chicago and Black Mountain College. He began working under the influence of sculptor David Smith, working with metal pipes, and made his first automobile parts sculpture in 1957. He had a 1971 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and another at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1986. His works are in major public and private collections worldwide.

UNTITLED

Untitled is an ingenious bas-relief, printed version of these sculptures. Two colors of ink were screenprinted on a sheet of aluminum that was then crinkled in a custom-made press.

 

Date
1994
Medium
Screenprint
Edition
30
Signature
Signed
Sheet
36 x 36 inches
Status
Available
Price
Price on request
The Artist

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain, a wholly American artist, channelled the postwar era’s revolutionary energy into a relentlessly inventive body of work that spanned six decades. He first became well-known for his sculptures built from vehicle components in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These ground-breaking pieces successfully translated the expressive intensity of Abstract Expressionist painting into three dimensions. In addition to bridging the gap between Process Art and Minimalism, Chamberlain’s works of twisted, crushed, and forged metal, which ranged in size from miniature to enormous, also brought the principles of both movements closer together. His groundbreaking pieces made him one of the first American artists to recognise colour as an essential element of abstract sculpture. From the late 1960s to the end of his life, Chamberlain used a staggering variety of mediums to express himself, ranging from foam, aluminium foil, and paper bags to Plexiglas, resin, and paint.

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