Claire Chambless
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artist statement
Claire Chambless (b. 1989 Houston, TX) makes sculpture in Los Angeles. She is interested in how objects make and remake each other, how people make and remake each other, how the world comes into being and is reproduced. In Chambless’s sculptures, there is no difference between a found object and a material, between sculpture and the human body, works are choreographed in a score that could be ever changing. Chambless received her BA at Davidson College and her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include: Carlye Packer (Los Angeles, CA); Davidson College(Charlotte, North Carolina); Fellows of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (FOCA); Sargents' Daughters (Los Angeles); MAK Center for Art & Architecture Mackey Apartments (Los Angeles); Flux Factory (New York); La MaMa Gallery (New York); the New Wight Biennial at UCLA (Los Angeles) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta).
Artwork
- Ghost Complex No.2, 2024. Synthetic "mars" hydroxapatite, wood, plastic, film, latex, string
- Untitled, 2024. Synthetic "mars" hydroxapatite, steel, string, expandable foam, latex, epoxy, wood
- Total Memory, 2023. Wood, memory foam, steel, synthetic "mars" hydroxyapatite, artificial pearls, latex, epoxy resin, sewing pins
- Ghost Complex no.5, 2024. Synthetic "mars" hydroxapatite, wood, plastic, film, latex, expandable foam, epoxy, string
- Shelley's Doppelganger II, 2024. synthetic “mars” hydroxyapatite, insulation foam, epoxy resin, folding camping chair with cup holder
- Sharpshooter Flotation Device, 2024. cardboard, expandable foam, latex, artificial pearls, upholstery foam, sewing pins, aluminum cast pieces from the set of Ridley Scott's 2000 film, "Gladiator"
- Ghost Complex no.1, 2024. Antique wood dollhouse, synthetic "mars" hydroxapatite, wood, plastic, film, latex, string
- Score II, 2024. graphite and pen on paper
- Score III, 2024. graphite and pen on paper
- Score I, 2024. graphite and pen on paper
- Snake Heart I, 2023. aluminum parts from the set of Ridley Scott's 2000 film, Gladiator, expandable foam, resin, box nails
- Doppelganger (Elvis=donald=America=gothic=Graceland=my Sicilian-American, Memphis-born grandmother, Patricia=my sister Grace, neither of whom are famous), 2023. globe, epoxy clay, polystyrene, artificial pearls, found architectural finial, black latex, newsprint
- Escape Route Module No.1, 2021. artificial pearls, fiberglass, epoxy resin
- Bone-Trap-Pearl-Game, 2022. artificial pearls, polyurethane foam, plaster, epoxy resin, steel, sewing pins, terracotta
- Barriers (So Heavy), 2020. polyurethane foam, epoxy resin, artificial pearls
- Pearl-Trap-Phantom-Limb, 2022. artificial pearls, polyurethane foam, plaster, epoxy resin, steel, sewing pins, terracotta
- Phantom Limb, 2023. sculpture (fiberglass, velvet, safety pins, resin)
- Thin Leech, 2022. collage on paper
- Ball and Chain, 2019. chromogenic print
- Choker, 2019. polystyrene, plaster, epoxy resin, aluminum chain
- the future is not what it used to be, 2020. folding chair, foam, resin
- Spare Me the Heroics, 2020. insulation foam, cardboard tube, upholstery foam, sewing pins, artificial pearls, latex, oyster shells, acrylic, epoxy resin
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, 2021. flagpole stand, rubber inner tube, artificial pearls, sewing pins, Easter eggs, black latex
- Broken Sculpture II, 2023. digital video