Artist's Reception: Saturday, July 10, 2010

  

TIME: 4 - 6 PM 

 

 

LOCATION: The H Gallery, located inside Hungry's Bistro at 2356 Rice Blvd, Houston, TX 77005

 

 

Artist's Talk at 5PM

 

 

Light refreshments & wine will be served

 

 

Gallery Hours (Best Hours) Mon - Sun 3 - 5 PM

 

 

Regular Hours:

Mon - Thurs 11am-10pm

Fri 11am-11pm

Sat 9am-11pm

Sun 9am-10pm 

 

The H Gallery at Hungry's Bistro proudly presents the opening of its solo exhibition-Tom Chambers: My Dear Malevich.     

 

Tom Chambers has been a Documentary Photographer/Visual Artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes).He has over eighty exhibitions, off- and on-line, to his credit.  And his recent work, "My Dear Malevich", has been exhibited at Novobirisk State Art Museum (Russia, 2007) and Zhaoqing University (China, 2007). 

Tom R. Chambers is currently Teacher in Technology Applications for Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [charter] in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He also teaches and advises after school programming ["Power Time"] in Digital Photography and Digital/New Media Art. His core group of "Power Time" students have connected with the Houston Audubon Society [HAS] to make nature photographs, and exhibit their work at the HAS Annual Gala, Houston Museum of Natural Science [November 8, 2007 and March 5, 2009]. They have also connected with FotoFest International [Houston] to participate in the organization's Literacy Through Photography [LTP] program as a pilot project via a photo blog. The blog has been exhibited at FotoFest's "FotoFence 2008" [May 11, 2008] and "FotoFence 2009" [May 17, 2009]. 

He is on the Faculty for Photo-Seminars.com. His documentary portraiture lesson is featured at this site, Profotos and others. He has also organized and curated two hyperlinked photo exhibitions for the PhotoForum membership under the auspices of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York, U.S.A. As he becomes more and more involved with digital generation as an art form, he continues to pick up his well-worn Nikon FE2s to generate conventional documentary projects. 

He has exhibited his fine arts/documentary work throughout the U.S.A. (over thirty exhibitions), and his mixed media/interactive work, Mother's 45s (a tribute to his mother through a combination of her 45rpm records, family photographs and sound [music from the records]), was selected through national competition for exhibition as a part of the Parents show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. (1992). 

American Photo magazine listed one of his documentary projects, Dyer Street Portraiture (a look at the culture mix on a particular military street in El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.), in its March, 1986 issue. His documentary project, Descendants 350 (a look at Rhode Island (U.S.A.) early history through a combination of portraits of Descendants of the Founding Fathers and historical text), was shown throughout Rhode Island (ten sites) and accepted by the Secretary of State (Rhode Island) as a part of the Rhode Island State Archives Permanent Collection (1990) (received a Governor's [Rhode Island] Proclamation); and his documentary project, In Black And White (a look at Black culture and influence in Rhode Island) was shown and accepted as a part of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Permanent Collection (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) (1989). 

 

"This homage to Kasimir Malevich is a confirmation of my Pixelscapes as Minimal Art and in keeping with Malevich's Suprematism ... the feeling of nonobjectivity ... the creation of a sense of bliss and wonder via abstraction. My action of looking within a photo of Malevich to find the basic component(s) ... pixel(s) is the same action as Malevich looking within himself ... inside the objective world ... for a pure feeling in creative art to find his 'Black Square', 'Black Cross' and other Suprematist works."-Tom R. Chambers