
Volver
2016
Volver draws the eye into a tightly organized yet quietly restless surface, where Chambers layers acrylic and enamel-based adhesive with nylon and rayon fibers to create a work that sits between painting and textile, between control and accident. The fibers, embedded within the paint rather than applied as decoration, introduce a tactile density that rewards close looking, shifting the reading of the canvas from flat composition to something closer to woven matter. At 182.9 by 106.7 centimeters, the work commands a wall with presence, its scale insisting on a physical encounter that smaller reproductions cannot fully communicate. Chambers has long been interested in the boundaries between craft traditions and contemporary abstraction, and Volver represents a mature articulation of that inquiry. The title, drawn from the Spanish verb meaning to return or to turn back, suggests cycles and repetition, themes that resonate in the rhythmic, near-systematic way the surface is built up. There is a meditative quality to the work, as if each gesture records both an action and a considered revision of it. The artist's handmade frame, noted as part of the original work though offered unframed here, underscores the degree to which Chambers treats the object as a total proposition rather than a painting in isolation. Available through Feuer/Mesler, this signed work from 2016 represents a significant moment in Chambers's development, when the fiber-embedded technique had reached a refined fluency. For collectors drawn to painting that carries the evidence of process without sacrificing compositional rigor, Volver offers a compelling and durable example of one of the more quietly singular practices working in abstraction today.
- Medium
- Acrylic, enamel based adhesive, nylon and rayon fibers on canvas in artist's frame
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Feuer/Mesler
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