Some Other Time

About

The British artist Tom Chamberlain (*1973) engages the simplest of artistic means to achieve an unusually high degree of visual complexity and his conceptual aim of intricate mark-making that brings about its own erasure. His paintings comprise multiple layers of thinly applied acrylic, while his drawings comprise innumerable evenly spaced points or lines. At first glance, a white piece of drawing paper belies the hundreds of threadlike lines that weave their way across the paper. Simple lines and primary colors interlock in a filigree field of complex iridescent color and movement that the beholderàŠ¼s eye struggles to perceive. What appears monochrome shimmers delicately, revealing depth and substance while evading definite form.