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Artist Statement:
SYLVAIN CHAMBERLAND
Statement
The Provocative Image
I like to coax people into participation in conversation. Whenever I hear conditioned responses, I cringe. I try to create images that encourage the viewer to bring their own experience into the dialogue. “Real” Art is about ideas.
Ideas resist stasis and mutate with the times and the human condition. The basis for all human thought and ideas is humanity itself. The figure, the human form, the “body” is therefore the vessel of creation and progenitor of all ideas. The body is always present in some form, no matter how abstract, in my works. I am a physical painter, using large scale as part technique to liberate my gestured strokes and expressive forms. I use Acrylic paint in a way that is fast and immediate, allowing me to produce hues and mixtures uncommon to acrylics. A college professor argued unrelentingly that a work he saw of mine, even upon close inspection, had to have been created in oils. He is wrong, but added to my confidence in my control of my medium.
I am not afraid of pure color, nor am I attached to it. My painting is driven by the ideas approached in ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SYLVAIN CHAMBERLAND
MEDIA
Painting, Installation, Video, Film, Spoken Word, Poetry, Manifests, Architecture, Sculpture, Multimedia, Internet, Music.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2002
Starting Over Coffee House Tupelo, MS – Random – Group
RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, MS – Proccessing Man– Solo
RCA (Russetta Contemporary Art) Tupelo, MS – One Year Later– 911 anniversary
RCA (Russetta Contemporary ...
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Artist Galleries:
http://artsylvain.com
http://sylvainartist.deviantart .com
http://threefoldlotus.com
http://thedb.com/sylvain
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.u k/yourgallery/artist_profile//7 596.html...
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Artist Reviews:
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Commissions:
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Collections for Sifu Sylvain Chamberland Nyudo:
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Randy Au, Santa Ana California, USA
BRAVO Arts and Entertainment Network, LA, USA
Frank Dixon, Santa Ana California, USA
Karen Fadel, Laguna Beach California, USA
The Fluor Corporation, Irvine California, USA
Karen Gallenger (Jazz Artist), San Clemente California, USA
Alexis Gershwin (Jazz Artist), Los Angeles California, USA
Barbara Grossman, PhD., Mission Viejo California, USA
Karun Grossman, San Diego California, USA
Jose Hernandez, Spain
Max Horst, PhD., Manchester, England
Lynn V. Kubasek, Laguna Beach California, USA
Ken & Caryn Kleinberg, Laguna Beach California, USA
Jon Lang Loi, Seoul, Korea
Laurie Mendenhall, Newport Beach California, USA
Todai Makushima, PhD., Keio, Japan
Jen Morrissey, San Diego California, USA
Jana Mosby, Diplomat, USA
Christopher Penrose, PhD., Keio, Japan
Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, Turtle Rock California, USA
Danielle Piomelli, PhD., University of California Irvine, USA
Antoine & Veronique Price, Vichy, France
Angelica & Ruben Rodarte, Irvine California, USA
Gloria Maria Rosán, Balboa Bay Club Newport Beach, USA
Grace Sandlin, Huntington Beach California, USA
Craig Shannon, New York New York, USA
James Todaro, Los Angeles California, USA
Ton Vin Tran, Viet Nam
Patrick & Patty Webster, Joshua Tree California, USA
Rosalind G. Wells, Corona Del Mar California, USA
Manohara Yarehalli, India
Bart Galloway, Mississippi, USA
Julie Sutton, Ohio, USA
Jeff Smith, Mississippi, USA
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