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Artist BioKatie 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.
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Dream of Me, 2016, embroidered photograph, 4x6 inches
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While I'm Gone, 2016, embroidered photograph, 4x6 inches
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Waking Up, 2016, embroidered photograph, 4x6 inches
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Alone, 2016, embroidered photograph, 4x6 inches
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We Were Dancers, 2017, paper, 8x10 inches
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Petals (detail), 2016, paper, 8x10 inches
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Collage no. 012, 2016, paper, 8 x10 inches
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Collage no. 017, 2016, paper, 8 x10 inches
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Sunday III, embroidered photograph, 4x6 inches, 2017
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Sunday IV, embroidered photograph, 4x6 inches, 2017
Artist StatementI 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.