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Artist Statement:
The stories I create are presented through cryptic tableaus inspired by my personal life. The viewer is to use his or her own perceptions of the symbols to extrapolate underlining themes and create an entertaining narrative. I encode the visual experience of private moments through the use of symbolic figures placed in ethereal landscape enacting indefinite scenarios. I want the viewer to have an active role in establishing the chronology and meaning of each story. In both painting and printmaking drawing plays a key role in the outcome of the artwork. I prefer the immediacy of painting with acrylic, and drawing with ink.
Bio:
Joshua Chambers received his Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana Tech University. His printmaking and paintings have been featured in national and international exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His work has been published in New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, Studio Visit Magazine, and The Red Clay Survey. He also has work in the permanent collections of the Lessedra Gallery in Bulgaria, and Osage Gallery in the Gilcrease Museum of the Americas. He is currently a teacher for the Talented Art Program of Ouachita Parish Schools in Louisiana. Joshua lives in Ruston, Louisiana with his wife Leigh Anne, and their daughter Sophia.
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Artist Statement
I have been blessed to travel extensively and experience the variety and sweep of beauty in God’s creation; that is the common thread through all that I am currently showing. A quick read of Psalm 36: 5 through 9 will summarize my outlook on the world, its beauty, and the source of my inspiration to both experience this beauty and communicate it to others.
It is because I was born without vision in one eye that I cannot take it—seeing—for granted. That reality is part of what drives me to see acutely, capture images with a camera, and share them . . . to photograph while I can . . . to create artistic images because I can.
My career in business has required an analytical mind that can take the whole—be it process or organization—and explore the elements, look for patterns. That was the process used as I went about finding the images of river rocks. I started taking images of a river valley, then captured drops of river water suspended in mid-air as they dashed against boulders. This honing of the lens focus near the river’s surface yielded glimpses of something that further caused me to investigate what was below the surface glare of the sun and beneath the clear, rushing mountain water--abstract beauty.
I have learned that sometimes it is through a process of exploration and analysis that a compelling image can be found; and sometimes that image just shouts “Hey, I’m over here—act now, don’t wait!”
I appreciate the arts in each form and medium, their power to evoke an emotion, to provoke a response, to entertain, to inspire. I especially enjoy capturing and sharing the line, the texture, the color, the shape—the moment—in a photographic image and lingering in it.
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