Hearts and Bones: A Retrospective of Tom Chambers' Photomontage Art

Product Details
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781911604211
Published:
Publisher:
Unicorn
Dimensions:
208 pages - 280mm

For about twenty-five years Tom Chambers has explored the medium of photography to create photomontages which are inspired largely from travel in the American West, New England, Mexico, Italy, and Iceland.  Photomontage is Tom’s unique way to present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. The feelings might range from tranquility to turbulence. Through the intentional use of magic realism, the photomontages look believable, but improbable. Each photomontage is carefully constructed, using both images that have been planned and those that unexpectedly enhance the story. Tom desires to move beyond documentation of the present, and rather seek to fuse reality and fantasy in musing about possibilities of the future.

 

Over time Tom has completed nine photographic series, each with fifteen to twenty-five photographs which have been exhibited in more than twenty solo shows and about a hundred group exhibitions and art fairs.  Tom’s work is represented by six galleries in the United States and Europe.  Tom has received fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.  Entropic Kingdom, containing images from five series, was published by Modernbook Editions in 2012.  Galerie Vevais published Werkdruck No. 6 in 2015, featuring his Illumination series.

Tom Chambers was raised on a farm in the Amish country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Tom completed a BFA in 1985 from Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida with an emphasis in graphic design and strong interest in photography. For many years Tom has worked as a graphic designer and art director, including the design of packaging and magazines. Since 1998 Tom has devoted himself to photomontage which has been influenced by national and international travel, music, literature, and the art genre of magic realism. Tom has received fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

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