Ann
Chamberlin’s Graceful Paintings
February 8 - 28, 2008
With
assurance and great appropriation of reality’s various
incidents, from every day themes to passages of political
and social flavour, Ann Chamberlin’s painting (United
States) takes place in a narrative field, revealing without
ambivalence a special taste for telling stories and for
making some characters stand out, which in some ample and
uncommon scale, have to do with objects and conditions, at
times intimate, at times explosive.
This isn’t an artist that pays attention to the objections
that some critics dish out to her, about firstly, to
painting as such and, secondly, to narrative painting. She,
evidently, enjoys the picture and enjoys the story being
told. Everything here indicates that the world never stops,
that the ideas live freely, that abstractions and concepts
are simply different. Furthermore the ideas live outside:
in the street, near the sea, in the open air, prowling
around a room or a highway or a tribunal. Not always joyful
of course, sometimes as preamble to death or as signs of
solitude, of cutting silences, sometimes vivacious and
in-love. There are small stories in keeping with small
formats showing oil on metal (copper and bronze), on
canvas, on wood; or watercolour on printed paper.
Entertainment that paints and worries, like small
narrations from masters, of tales and suspense, giving life
and voice to inanimate objects by ignorance or routine,
bringing into the light sharply and with humour, the
importance of a corner, a shadow or a light.
Ann Chamberlin, becomes the hand of the elemental spirit
that, in itself, contains the art but insufflates a point
of view devoid of complexes and precautions. She enters
naked (as art should be always) to the soul of worlds that
she has been discovering for many years now.
The artist looks on with nobility and justice though she is
not fooled by the unspeakable human condition prone to
baseness and violence, when not to ridicule and certainty.
But her eye, here, is the eye of grace.
Ann
Chamberlin’s Graceful Paintings
Exhibition
February 8 - 28, 2008
With
assurance and great appropriation of reality’s various
incidents, from every day themes to passages of political
and social flavour, Ann Chamberlin’s painting (United
States) takes place in a narrative field, revealing without
ambivalence a special taste for telling stories and for
making some characters stand out, which in some ample and
uncommon scale, have to do with objects and conditions, at
times intimate, at times explosive.
This isn’t an artist that pays attention to the objections
that some critics dish out to her, about firstly, to
painting as such and, secondly, to narrative painting. She,
evidently, enjoys the picture and enjoys the story being
told. Everything here indicates that the world never stops,
that the ideas live freely, that abstractions and concepts
are simply different. Furthermore the ideas live outside:
in the street, near the sea, in the open air, prowling
around a room or a highway or a tribunal. Not always joyful
of course, sometimes as preamble to death or as signs of
solitude, of cutting silences, sometimes vivacious and
in-love. There are small stories in keeping with small
formats showing oil on metal (copper and bronze), on
canvas, on wood; or watercolour on printed paper.
Entertainment that paints and worries, like small
narrations from masters, of tales and suspense, giving life
and voice to inanimate objects by ignorance or routine,
bringing into the light sharply and with humour, the
importance of a corner, a shadow or a light.
Ann Chamberlin, becomes the hand of the elemental spirit
that, in itself, contains the art but insufflates a point
of view devoid of complexes and precautions. She enters
naked (as art should be always) to the soul of worlds that
she has been discovering for many years now.
The artist looks on with nobility and justice though she is
not fooled by the unspeakable human condition prone to
baseness and violence, when not to ridicule and certainty.
But her eye, here, is the eye of grace.
