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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 Reviews:
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Collections:
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...
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Commissions:
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Galleries for Sifu Sylvain Chamberland Nyudo:
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http://artsylvain.com
http://sylvainartist.deviantart.com
http://threefoldlotus.com
http://thedb.com/sylvain
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//7596.html
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