christopher hart chambers

This work in sculpture and bas relief is idiosyncratically American, its roots born in post war faux utopian consumerist wants dreams and desires, as well as real functionary needs. It is informed by sports cars, hot rods, speed boats, interstellar spacecraft. The design format remarks on graphic marketing systems: logos; emblems of the corporate identities they exhort – themselves imagined representations at once removed from people and products – the needs and functions they represent, referencing the entire synthetic aesthetic of a mechanized society. Markedly, the ultimate consumer item and demarcation of elitism, intellectualism, status, and surfeit wealth: art.