Next Generation and
Inside-deep Series/Pixelscapes: Third Generation:
Featured artist at the University of North
Carolina-Pembroke Digital Content Consortium (DCC)
Conference to be held March 28-29, 2003 with the
Pixelscapes exhibition to continue at the University
of North Carolina Art Department/Media Integration
Project through May 15.
Minimalist in their approach, these Pixelscape
compositions cease to function as a reflection of
reality through image magnification and pixel
configuration. Chambers hopes that they are capable of
evoking a spiritual experience and in keeping with
similar beliefs of the early Pioneers of Abstraction
and Minimalism. These Pioneers practiced Art as a
metaphysical quest for higher truth, and these
Pixelscapes possibly move in a similar quest or
direction as it relates to placement, juxtaposition
and color-field excitation. In favor of felt
experience, these Pixelscapes begin to transcend the
Digital Art genre by making use of themselves. And
because of the magnification, a revelation of sorts
exists through seen pixels.
JD Jarvis, Art Critic, states about Chambers'
Inside-deep Series: "The genre of Minimalism makes a
good verbal foundation for the work Chambers is
exploring. This new generation of work is challenging
even those distinctions. In terms of minimalism, these
works seem almost elaborate, with strong patterns
emerging from the basic structure that is the single
pixel. Taken to the next extreme would be a sculptural
arrangement of individual squares (pixels) of a single
color. As if pixels have liberated themselves, through
magnification, from any other context and are now
present as individual entities in 'non-virtual' space.
The potential for a huge installation referenced as a
unit (pattern) from a great distance or seen as
individual bits up close has implications for an
individual's life within a global community, as well
as, commenting on digital communication/art."
Tom R. Chambers, a Documentary Photographer and Visual
Artist for over thirty years, is currently working
with digital generation and manipulation as an art
form under the namesake of New Directions and
Pixelscapes, which begins to approach a true abstract,
visual language in Digital Art. He has exhibited his
Documentary Portraiture and Visual Arts throughout the
U.S.A. and worldwide (over forty exhibitions); and his
mixed media and interactive work, Mother's 45s, was
selected through national search (U.S.A.) for
exhibition as a part of the Parents show at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton,
Ohio, U.S.A., 1992. American Photo magazine listed
one of his Photodocumentary projects, Dyer Street
Portraiture, in its Notable Exhibitions section,
March, 1986 issue. Chambers also completed a
three-year tour as Art Conservator and Curator for the
National Gallery of Zimbabwe and as the
Initiator/Instructor of The McEwen Photographic Studio
for the National Gallery's Art School.
Contacts:
John Antoine Labadie, PhD
Coordinator, UNC-Pembroke Digital Content Consortium
(DCC) Conference
Associate Professor of Art & Director, Media
Integration Project
Art Department, UNC-Pembroke
john.labadie@uncp.edu
http://www.uncp.edu/art/
Tom R. Chambers, MA
Documentary Photographer/Visual Artist
chambersdva@yahoo.com
http://tomchambers.0catch.com/
http://tomchambers.0catch.com/rmde.html
http://tomchambers.0catch.com/psinsidedeep.html
