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Tom Chambers http://tomchambers.0catch.com/ Mediums - photography, mixedmedia, digital Artist's Statement -Documentary portraiture, mixedmedia and installation, digital (Abstraction and Minimalism). Gallery Affiliations - Exhibitions - Pixelscapes: Next Generation (and derivatives)/Inside-deep Series (Pixelscapes: Third Generation) (featured artist; solo show), Digital Content Consortium (DCC) Conference, University of North Carolina-Pembroke, March 28-29, with the exhibition to continue at the UNC Art Department/Media Integration Project through May 15, 2003. IDAA 2003 (Pixelscapes: Inside-deep Series: I-dS1, I-dS2 and I-dS3) (group show) (Juror invitation), The Academy Gallery (view installation), University of Tasmania, Australia, March-April, 2003. Pixelscapes: Next Generation (solo show), Museum of Contemporary Art, Solovki (Solovetskie Ostrova/Solovetskie Islands, White Sea), Russia, Summer, 2002. ArCade-III in Russia (Pixelscapes: Next Generation) (group show) (an international exhibition of computer generated prints), Novosibirsk, Russia (curated by Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton and the London Institute, UK and by Andrey Martynov, LeVall Art Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia), July 18 - 31, 2002. IV2002 (Information Visualization Symposium/Dart Gallery) (Pixeltones: Scan Series) (group show), University of London, London, England, July 10-12, 2002. Digital Showcase 15 (Pixeltone Gradients: Shift Series) (group show), Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA), (view installation) Austin, Texas, May 28, 2002. Pixelscapes: Next Generation (solo show), LeVall Art Gallery (view installation), Novosibirsk, Russia, April 4-17, 2002. Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen (Pixeltones (Scan Series) and Toe Totem) (group show), Digital Studio, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., March 23, 2002 - May 12, 2002 (Curated by Ted Fisher). 2nd Interpoetry Exhibition - The Hypermedia Poetics (Pixelscapes) (group show), Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Education, Presbyterian University Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil, 2001. Digital Media Festival 2001 (Pixelscapes) (group show), College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, 2001. IV2001 (Information Visualization Symposium/Dart Gallery) (Pixelscapes: Skyline I and Skyline II) (group show), University of London, London, England, 2001. IDAA 2001 (Blades, Geo and Mutation II) (group show), Noosa Regional Gallery, Australia, 2001. People To People (two-person show), Kumho Art Center, Kwangju, South Korea (accepted as a part of the Kumho Art Foundation Archives Permanent Collection), 1997. Variations On The Dan Mask (solo show), National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa (by invitation), 1995. Southwest Of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection (solo show), Corridor Gallery, United States Information Service (USIS), Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa (grant - United States Government ; and accepted as a part of the USIS Archives Permanent Collection), 1995. Parents (Mother's 45s) (group show), Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. (selected through national competition), 1992. Providence In Austin (solo show), G.F. Gallery, Austin, Texas, U.S.A., 1992. A Night At The Silvertop (three-person show), Po Gallery/Anchor Project, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1992. Descendants/350 (solo show), Rhode Island State Archives, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (accepted by the Secretary of State as a part of the Rhode Island State Archives Permanent Collection), 1991. Photo 1991 (Dyer Street Portraiture) (group show), Lincoln Campus Art Gallery, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1991. In Black And White (solo show), Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (grant - Rhode Island Black Heritage Society; and accepted as a part of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Archives Permanent Collection), 1991. Mother's 45s (solo show), Gallery One, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1990. Hot City (solo show), Corridor Gallery, Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (grant - Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank; accepted as a part of the City of Providence Archives Permanent Collection; and received a Mayor's Proclamation), 1989. Descendants/350 (solo show), The Old Colony House, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the Secretary of State's Office, Rhode Island), 1988. Descendants/350 (solo show), The State House, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the Secretary of State's Office, Rhode Island; and received a Governor's Proclamation), 1988. Photo Show 1988 (Dyer Street Portraiture) (group show), Corridor Gallery, Department of Transportation, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts), 1988. Descendants/350 (solo show), The Barrington Public Library, Barrington, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution), 1988. Photo Show 1987 (In And Out) (group show), Gallery One, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1987. Descendants/350 (solo show), Faculty Club Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1987. Descendants/350 (solo show), The Warwick Museum, Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1987. Descendants/350 (solo show), The Narragansett Pier Free Library, Narrangansett, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the Narragansett Historical Society), 1987. Descendants/350 (solo show), CCE Gallery, The University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1987. People And Cultures (solo show), The Roger Williams Park Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (grant - City of Providence), 1987. Descendants/350 (solo show), The Roger Williams Park Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the City of Providence), 1987. Descendants/350 (solo show), The Fleet Center Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (grant - Providence 350, Inc.), 1986. Dyer Street Portraiture (solo show), The Silver Bullet Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (listed in the 'Notable Exhibitions' section of American Photo magazine, March, 1986), 1986. Emerging Rhode Island Artists (Hometown) (group show), Corridor Gallery, T.F. Green Airport, Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (sponsored by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts), 1986. Photo 1985 (Dyer Street Portraiture) (group show), The Gallery of Fine Arts, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A., 1985. Dyer Street Portraiture (solo show), Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A., 1985. Med-Lines (solo show), Medical Library, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A., 1982. Mexico: A Package Tour (solo show), The Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A., 1981. Tom Chambers Looks at H.J. Bott (two-person show), The Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A., 1975. Once Upon A Strand (solo show), Galveston County Courthouse, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A., 1974. Once Upon A Strand (solo show), American National Insurance Archives, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A., 1974. Pixelscapes: Next Generation and Inside-deep Series/Pixelscapes: Third Generation, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (as a part of Art Is Everywhere, Boston Cyberarts Festival) (view screenshots), April 26 - May 10, 2003. Pixelscapes: Next Generation (solo show), Global Art Internet Gallery, 2002. Pixelscapes, Pixeltones, Corel Images and Xara 3D Animations (solo show), VzualNet Gallery, 2002 (Curator's Comments). Pixelscapes (Celebration, Passion, Go Green, Lift, Skyline I and Redistrict) (solo show), DigiZine.com, 2002. Metropolis (group show), North American and Central American Gallery, Gallery of Art, Argentina, 2002. Pixelscapes (Celebration, Lemon-Lime, Contact, Overseas, Passion, Go Green, Red Sweep, Runway, Lift, Skyline II, Sunrise and Yellow Field) (solo show), It's Art, Baby! Art!, 2002. Pixelscapes (Celebration, Lemon-Lime, Contact, Overseas, Passion, Go Green, Red Sweep, Runway, Lift, Skyline II, Sunrise and Yellow Field) (solo show), K Blue Square Gallery, 2001. New Directions (Blades, Crab Salad, Light File, First Love, Fish Story, Geo, Home Sweet Home, Marilyn, Metropolis, Mexican Canvas, Orchard and Passport to Nowhere) (Featured Guest Artist), exhibition of digitally-manipulated and -generated (PhotoShop and Corel Photo-Paint) images, Digital Art Museum, 2001. Pixelscapes (Celebration, Passion, Lift, Skyline I, Sunrise and Redistrict) (solo show), Digital Salon Gallery, 2001. Pixelscapes (group show), 2nd Interpoetry Exhibition - The Hypermedia Poetics, Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Education, Presbyterian University Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil, 2001. Korean Young Generation (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2001. Pixelscapes (group show), Digital Media Festival 2001, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, 2001. Chikji-sa (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2001. Pixelscapes (Medic, Overseas and Passion) (solo show), Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), 2001. Pixelscapes (Skyline I and Skyline II) (group show), Information Visualization Symposium 2001, The Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, England, 2001. Korean Mechanic (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2001. Haein-sa (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2001. Red Frame Trilogy (group show), Pure Colour/Red Pictures, 2001. IDAA 2001 (Blades, Geo and Mutation II) (finalists - group show), IDAA, 2001. Mother's 45s (solo show), Avenue Gallery, 2001. Spam (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2000. New Directions (Face The Music, Daisy Maze) (group show), exhibition of digitally-manipulated (Adobe Photoshop) images, Creativenue, 2000. Dyer Street Portraiture (DSP-2) (group show), Click Photography Gallery, 2000. Cyber Temple (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2000. Digital Derivatives/Beyond Photography Gallery, New Directions (Passport to Nowhere, Metropolis) (group show), exhibition of digitally-manipulated (Adobe Photoshop) images, PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 2000 (organized and curated by Bob Roseman). Self-portrait (Torment) (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 1999. New Directions (Metropolis, Passport to Nowhere, Milk and Cookies, The Past Doesn't Matter, Orchard, Mexican Canvas) (solo show), exhibition of digitally-manipulated (Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint) images, The Art Bin Gallery, 1999. Speed Pole (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 1999. New Directions (Exposed, 69, Profiles) (Featured Guest Artist), exhibition of digitally-manipulated (Xara3D) images, A Room Without Walls, 1999. New Directions (Torment, Key Play, Feeding Frenzy, Milk and Cookies, African Grass) (solo show), exhibition of digitally-manipulated (Adobe Photoshop) images, PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 1998. New Directions (Daisy Maze, Feeding Frenzy, Fish Story, Marilyn, Milk and Cookies, Rosary, Tomato Box) (solo show), exhibition of digitally-manipulated (Adobe Photoshop) images, Afternoon Magazine (Electronic Gallery), 1998. Passion On-line (Feeding Frenzy) (group show), second on-line/hyperlinked exhibition under the auspices of PhotoForum, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. (organizer/curator), 1998. Hyperlink: PhotoForum Worldwide Exhibition (Southwest of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection [SWRMC-1]) (group show), first on-line/hyperlinked exhibition under the auspices of PhotoForum, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. (initiator/organizer/curator), 1997. Personal Reflections (Self Portrait) (group show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 1997. Dyer Street Portraiture (solo show), PhotoForum Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 1997. |  |
Biography - Tom R. Chambers is a Documentary Photographer/Visual Artist. He is currently working with digital manipulation and generation as an art form and Pixelscapes under the namesake of New Directions with several online exhibitions to his credit. He also has over forty real-world exhibitions to his credit. He was Artist In Residence for the 3rd quarter/2000 at JimmySellars.com, Featured Guest (September 2000) at Creativenue.com and Featured Artist (exhibition/interview) at Avenue Gallery. He is also working with Pixeltones: Scan Series and Pixeltone Gradients: Shift Series (derivatives of his Pixelscapes utilizing halftone/gradient conversions (smaller version seen to the right)) (Exhibited as a part of the Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen group show at the Digital Studio, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., 2002, Digital Showcase 15, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX, U.S.A., 2002 and 6th International Information Visualization Conference, University of London, London, England, 2002). Chambers is on the Executive Committee for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA) based in Australia and Juror for the year, 2003. The IDAA seeks to present and attract the best digital art by artists who represent art par excellence, and will be judged by a leading panel of their peers. And it seeks to be the standard for digital art via online and hard copy exhibitions. The IDAA is under the direction of Steve Danzig. He is on the Faculty for WebPhotoSchool.com and Photo-Seminars.com. His documentary portraiture lesson is featured at these aforementioned sites and also at the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, NAOFA (August 2000), It's Art, Baby! Art! and Profotos. He also organized and curated two hyperlinked photo exhibitions for the PhotoForum membership under the auspices of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, NY). As he becomes more and more involved with digital manipulation and generation as an art form and the Internet, he continues to pick up his well-worn Nikon FE2s to generate conventional documentary projects. He exhibited his work as a part of a two-person show, People To People (a series of documentary portraits of the Korean people), at Kumho Art Center, Kwangju, South Korea (1997); and this coverage was accepted as a part of the Kumho Art Foundation Archives Permanent Collection. He completed a three-year tour (1993-1995) as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa as an Art Conservator/Curator for the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and as the Initiator/Instructor of The McEwen Photographic Studio for the National Gallery's Art School: research/classification and computerization of the National Gallery's Permanent Collection to produce a catalogue; and instruction of a fine arts/documentary photography workshop for Black Africans (exhibitions held of the students works: 'Moments In Time' (1993), 'Moments In Time II' (1994) and 'Moments In Time III' (1995) at the National Gallery). He was invited by the National Gallery to exhibit Variations On The Dan Mask (a conceptual look at the African mask form through manipulation of the photogram technique) (December 1995; officially opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe); and he received a U.S. Government Grant via the United States Information Service (USIS), Harare to exhibit Southwest Of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection (a series of documentary portraits of the Black African people) at the USIS Gallery (June-July 1995; officially opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe; and accepted as a part of the USIS Archives Permanent Collection). He has exhibited his fine arts/documentary work throughout the U.S.A. (over thirty exhibitions), and his mixed media/interactive work, Mother's 45s (a tribute to his mother through a combination of her 45rpm records, family photographs and sound (music from the records)), was selected through national competition 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 documentary projects, Dyer Street Portraiture (a look at the culture mix on a particular military street in El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.), in its March, 1986 issue. His documentary project, Descendants/350 (a look at Rhode Island's (U.S.A.) early history through a combination of portraits of Descendants of the Founding Fathers and historical text), was shown throughout Rhode Island (ten sites) and accepted by the Secretary of State (Rhode Island) as a part of the Rhode Island State Archives Permanent Collection (1990) (received a Governor's (Rhode Island) Proclamation); and his documentary project, In Black And White (a look at Black culture and influence in Rhode Island) was shown and accepted as a part of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Permanent Collection (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) (1989). He founded and directed a not-for-profit, photographic arts organization and gallery, Viewpoint, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A. (American Photo magazine reviewed one of the exhibitions at the gallery in its April, 1983 issue) (1982-1983); and founded and directed a not-for-profit, photographic arts organization, Photoreach, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (1990). He was listed (1984-1991) in the Artists-In-Education roster with the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts (RISCA) (U.S.A.), and served as an Advisory Panelist for RISCA to determine funding for residency programs. He also served as an Advisory Panelist for the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts (U.S.A.) to determine funding for residency programs. He provided documentation of the homeless and poor in Rhode Island (U.S.A.) for the Rhode Island Food Bank (1986); provided documentation of the elderly in Rhode Island (U.S.A.) for Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) and the Andrus Foundation/American Association for Retired Persons (1987); and provided documentation of city life and politics for the Executive Office of the Mayor, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (also for the Rhode Island Delegation at the Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. - 1988), which culminated in the exhibition, Hot City, at the Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (1989) (1985-1990) (received a grant and Mayor's Proclamation). He conducted Polaroid workshops for at-risk, inner-city youth in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. for Metro Arts (grants from the Polaroid Foundation); and served as an Advisory Panelist for the organization (1986-1990). And he produced and directed visual arts/performance arts presentations, VP90 (Release) and 'CYSX2' as a part of First Night Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (1989-1991). |