detail of I'm Worried I'm Always Alone, 2004. acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 inches

Beau Chamberlain : Sweet Tomorrow
February 25– March 19, 2005; Opening Friday, February 25

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Sweet Tomorrow, the first solo exhibition of paintings by Beau Chamberlain. It will open Friday, February 25, 2005 with a reception from 6 – 8 pm and will run through March 19th. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11 – 6 pm.

Inspired by the ability of nature to attract, camouflage, and repel, Beau Chamberlain’s precise paintings hover between abstraction and figuration. Beginning with elusive imagery from botany and entomology, Chamberlain embraces crossovers between divergent biological categories, the pliable and resistant, from one ecosystem to another. Evoking lunar landings, molecular imaging and Chinese landscape painting, Chamberlain’s work explores mutation, imitation and definability.

In I’m Worried I’m Always Alone, 2004, Chamberlain incises a pristine white surface with volumetric shapes that both recede and swell. Other outcroppings include mosaic patterns of dusty gray, brown and taupe. Emerging from the snowy white surface, a green stalk unfolds into the body of a hybrid insect/bird, its heavy draping wings anointed with feathery gills.

Inscribed in a creamy square, Chamberlain’s Remember When You Fell, 2005, fills up with clusters of red and pink cellular platelets suggesting layers of fallen cherry blossom petals. In another passage, fluid drips of blue, green and yellow coalesce to form the architecture of a splitting trunk or waterfall.

Beau Chamberlain was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976 and received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2003. His work has been presented in exhibitions at Jessica Murray Projects and at Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY. Chamberlain lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Upcoming

March 10 – March 14, 2005
VIDEO LOUNGE – Sex and Food/ Politics/ Art and Architecture
Works by Carrie Dashow, Chris Doyle, David Ellis, Rachel Mason, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Judi Werthein, and others.

For more information, please contact the gallery at 212 633 9606 or info@jessicamurrayprojects.com.

Further details are available in Gallery Information.