Nationality American Role Sculptor Name Robert Chambers | Spouse(s) Mette Tommerup Occupation sculptor Education University of Miami | |
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Full Name Robert Lucas Chambers Known for installations, experimentation | ||
Robert Lucas Chambers (born 1958) is an American sculptor from Miami Florida. His most recent public artwork is the South Miami Dade Art and Cultural Center. 'Light Field' and 'Adze' and 'Celt'.
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Background and education
He received a BFA from University of Miami in 1983 and an MA from New York University in 1990. He returned later to teach at University of Miami and New York University. and is married to Danish-born painter Mette Tommerup.
Collections
His sculptures appear in the permanent collections of the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Miami Art Museum. The son of an artist mother and a molecular scientist father, Chambers often includes scientific motifs in his sculptures. He describes his work as having "a sense of experimental playfulness. The rigidity of science, chemistry and physics is broken by a desire to re-contextualize empirical research thru a sculptor's vantage point." Chambers has also used debris from Florida hurricanes in his work.
Chambers' 2004 sculpture "Sugabus", 45 globes of bronze representing the elements of a sucrose molecule in the shape of a poodle, appears at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri. The work's title is a portmanteau of "sugar" and Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the underworld in ancient Greek mythology. The sculpture is 14 feet (4.3 m) x 12 feet (3.7 m) x 12 feet (3.7 m) and weights 6 short tons (5.4 t).
Art Basel Miami
During Art Basel Miami in November 2007, Chambers installed a sculpture titled "Rotorelief" on roof of the Sagamore Hotel. The sculpture consisted of a working helicopter, the blades of which had been replaced by hypnotic discs.