Archives: <span>Artists</span>

Inventor of the Chamberlain Method of unique monotype oil painting, using hands, combs, rollers, and overhead mirrors — but no brushes — to engage a robust dialogue between painting and music.

Pioneering feminist painter who lived in SoHo. Stylistically, her works are at once surreal, lyrical, and mythical owing to the interplay of calligraphic shapes and biomorphic curves with geometric shapes.

During the 1980s he invented sculpture-as-graffiti and was a driving force in the Rivington School. He bolted his welded sculptures to the city’s signposts — calling them “outstallations.” The title of one says it all: “I’m No Gallery Whore.” His recent paintings — AbEx Graffiti —...

Before he disappeared he was on the perfect path: studying under Josef Albers at Yale; a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1966; internationally, several museums of modern art showed his paintings. But in his spiritual exploration he became reclusive and shunned galleries. In his...