Artist biography
John Chamberlain born 1927
American sculptor, painter and experimental film-maker. Born in Rochester, Indiana, but grew up in Chicago. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago 1951-2 and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1955-6, then moved to New York. Began by carving and modelling, but turned to working in metal in 1952 and welding 1953. First one-man exhibition at the Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, 1957. From 1957 made sculpture from scrap metal parts of discarded cars, retaining the original painted colours; these sculptures with their crumpled surfaces and twisted planes had some affinity with the Abstract Expressionist paintings of de Kooning and Kline… (read more)
