
John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain
During his long and noteworthy career, John Chamberlain created large scale sculptures out of scrap metal auto parts, aiming to render the dynamism of abstract expressionism in three dimensions. Born in Rochester, Indiana, in 1927, the artist studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and Black Mountain College, North Carolina. He began to exhibit widely after moving to New York, participating in the 1973 and 1987 Whitney Biennials and Documenta VII (1982) in Kassel. Chamberlain’s work has been exhibited in over one hundred solo museum shows, including retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1971, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1986, and again posthumously at the Guggenheim the year after the artist passed away in 2011. His sculptures may be found in several museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Menil Collection, Houston, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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Enrico Castellani
Dan Colen
Willem de Kooning
Lucio Fontana
Gego
David Hammons
Yves Klein
Seung-taek Lee
Tsuyoshi Maekawa
François Morellet
Robert Motherwell
Senga Nengudi
Roman Opalka
Adrian Piper
Carol Rama
Martial Raysse
Peter Regli
Germaine Richier
Chung Sang-Hwa
Karin Schneider
Joel Shapiro
Kazuo Shiraga
Pierre Soulages
Pat Steir
Frank Stella
Günther Uecker
Zao Wou-Ki
Specializing in Works By
- Carl Andre
- Diane Arbus
- Francis Bacon
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Louise Bourgeois
- Alberto Burri
- John Chamberlain
- Joseph Cornell
- Gino de Dominicis
- PETER DOIG
- Jean Dubuffet
- Lucian Freud
- Alberto Giacometti
- Gilbert & George
- Arshile Gorky
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Philip Guston
- Jasper Johns
- Donald Judd
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Anselm Kiefer
- Franz Kline
- Jeff Koons
- Barbara Kruger
- Yayoi Kusama
- Gerald Laing
- Fernard Leger
- Roy Lichtenstein
- René Magritte
- Piero Manzoni
- Brice Marden
- Agnes Martin
- Joan Miró
- Piet Mondrian
- Barnett Newman
- Claes Oldenburg
- Pablo Picasso
- Sigmar Polke
- Jackson Pollock
- Richard Prince
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Ad Reinhardt
- Anselm Reyle
- Gerhard Richter
- Mark Rothko
- Ed Ruscha
- Robert Ryman
- Salvatore Scarpitta
- Thomas Schütte
- Richard Serra
- Cindy Sherman
- Clyfford Still
- Rudolf Stingel
- Cy Twombly
- Andy Warhol
- Tom Wesselmann
- Christopher Wool