In his series “Where” Derek Faust utilizes found road debris such as broken glass and displaced car parts to create assemblages fraught with anxiety. The titles for paintings are from Verses poems. Once again, Chambers is taking a strong valuable material linked with permanence and an immovable presence and repurposing it, essentially erasing its past and denying the most likely future in favor of boundless possibilities. Encouraging the rusting process over paper, Chambers incorporates the rust into his paintings and drawings in his Lowerings series. Chambers utilizes found metal pieces in an entirely different way. Metal is often used to build futuristic objects like skyscrapers and cars. In this way, he honors memory and calls on nostalgia while freeing the viewer from the particulars. For these artworks, he collects vintage photographs, cuts them into strips, and collages them into weavings exposing the handwritten notation on the backsides. With the title of another of his series Cryptomnesia, the artist refers to a condition in which someone forgets they have previously seen or heard something and thinks erroneously that they have invented the idea.
Many Southerners can relate to the desire to re-examine this text, and to the search for new meaning, lightness, and joy within its pages. Verses is a series of black-out poetry explorations in which Chambers uses white paint to eliminate all but a few words from the pages of a large old manuscript: the Bible. We are living in a time that is Boundless." - Beth Sale, Curatorĭon Chambers’ investigations of memory and decay take a multitude of forms. When we cannot continue to move forward as usual, we must call into question every aspect of how we live. Our current circumstances demand that we rethink every aspect of how we exist. These artists examine preconceived notions of memory, place, and language, and provide a sense of hope. The artists in Boundless share their visions of possibilities by looking at the past with a new perspective, repurposing ordinary materials to create magic, or moving beyond prescribed arbitrary borders.
We are all urged to imagine a different (perfect?) world. We are re-examining previous notions of gender and discovering multiple universes occurring simultaneously. We are questioning collective memories and histories, and toppling monuments that reflect stories we no longer want to honor. "We are living in a time when most of our society has acknowledged we can do better than this. New above Artist Talk with Paula Reynaldi. BOUNDLESS features works by Don Chambers, Derek Faust, Katherine McCullough, Alex McClay and Paula Reynaldi.
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