Rebecca Chamberlain
Rebecca Chamberlain has worked broadly across disciplines, from painting and performance to fashion design. Her paintings and drawings consider the boundaries of public and private spaces and the psychological and physical impact of architecture. Using materials such as lithography ink, ballpoint pen in unusual ways, Chamberlain’s paintings of Modernist architecture call attention to a humanist approach to design and its effect on the way we experience spaces.
Rebecca Chamberlain was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. She has performed at the Hirschhorn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been exhibited at Dodge Gallery, 303 Gallery, and Knoedler Project Space in New York; VOLTA NY, New York; judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA; Leyendecker Gallery, SP among other venues. She has been a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Grant and a NYFA Fellowship for Painting. Chamberlain's work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America, Artinfo.com, The Boston Globe, Flash Art and Tema Celeste, among others. Her work is included in the collections of The Currier and RISD Museums, Société Bic, Fidelity Investments and Torys LLP. Following a residency at Het Vijfde Seizoen …
Rebecca Chamberlain has worked broadly across disciplines, from painting and performance to fashion design. Her paintings and drawings consider the boundaries of public and private spaces and the psychological and physical impact of architecture. Using materials such as lithography ink, ballpoint pen in unusual ways, Chamberlain’s paintings of Modernist architecture call attention to a humanist approach to design and its effect on the way we experience spaces.
Rebecca Chamberlain was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. She has performed at the Hirschhorn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been exhibited at Dodge Gallery, 303 Gallery, and Knoedler Project Space in New York; VOLTA NY, New York; judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA; Leyendecker Gallery, SP among other venues. She has been a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Grant and a NYFA Fellowship for Painting. Chamberlain's work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America, Artinfo.com, The Boston Globe, Flash Art and Tema Celeste, among others. Her work is included in the collections of The Currier and RISD Museums, Société Bic, Fidelity Investments and Torys LLP. Following a residency at Het Vijfde Seizoen (an artist residence program at a psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands) in 2013, Chamberlain became an Artist Ambassador for the Beautiful Distress Foundation Artist Residency at Kings County Hospital.
Chamberlain lives and works between Brooklyn and Delancey, New York.
Courtesy of the Artist
Currier Museum of Art, in Manchester, NH
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
