Katie Chambers was born in Los Angeles, California and is currently living and working in New York City.

2017 MFA Fine Art Thesis Walkthrough- Katie Chambers from Parsons Art, Media & Technology on Vimeo.

I create three-dimensional garment paintings out of found clothing and personal items to dissect and complicate myths of pop culture, youth, and consumerism. I define a garment painting as a wall sculpture with various appendages that interfere with the painting’s surroundings. The ongoing series of fabric collages are suspended between becoming non-sized garments and three dimensional paintings. This perpetual state of potential drives my work to continually redefine itself.
I am invested in the memory, identity, and agency interwoven into articles of clothing and found objects, and work out of a dual reality of the observed and the invented. The lived histories of discarded items are often unknown or lost over time, in which I invent environments for new garment-hybrids to occupy by deconstructing the garments at their seams in order to reconstruct and re-contextualize them in a new space and composition. By utilizing the quotidian nature of fabric and found objects, my work celebrates the ordinary while questioning our desires and habits.