Sebastian Wahl

Sebastian Wahl

Sebastian Wahl has made it his mission in life to take collage to new and uncharted territories. Wahl’s work encompasses everything from psychedelic landscapes to iconic, mandalic and spiritual surrealism. His attention to detail and sense of symmetry, balance and color bring all the elements included in his pieces together to create countless harmonious mirages. Wahl fell in love with collage in 1995 and has since been fully committed to the medium. In 2006 he started using resin in his work. He was looking for a challenge and for a way to elevate his process and he found it. Wahl spent the next couple of years perfecting this dynamic approach to his craft and in 2009 he had his first solo exhibition in New York City with these three-dimensional collages.

When working this way Wahl places cut images and papers on a hardened layer of clear resin before pouring a successive layer on top. This process is repeated as many as fifteen times in a single collage, yielding artworks that are essentially collage time capsules measuring up to one inch in depth. This layering technique is very important since it gives Wahl’s collages a unique edge and spotlights the artist’s skill and dedication to his craft. The actual shadows cast between the individual layers create a sense of curiosity and wonder, drawing one in to explore the work more intimately. Sebastian Wahl lives and works in New York City.

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Furtherrr | Togetherrr

Furtherrr

“TOGETHERRR”

March 11 – May 21, 2022

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of The Togetherrr Exhibition

The opening event will feature never-before-seen collaborative works, including a live painting by the Furtherrr Collective accompanied by The Gaslamp Killer.

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Gallerist Brian Chambers announces the opening of Togetherrr, a retrospective exhibit of massive psychedelic paintings made by collaborating artists – alchemical images which are the products of many hands and brushes working together – a group vision of a beautiful otherworld. The event, featuring live painting by the Furtherrr Collective, accompanied by The Gaslamp Killer, A Path Untold, and other special musical guests, begins on March 11th at 5 pm.

Chambers has curated a survey of never-before-seen collaborative paintings that “have redefined what live collaboration is, and what live painting can be.”

Enormous mural-sized canvases by the members of the Furtherrr Collective Mars-1, Oliver Vernon, Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, and Nome Edonna will be shown together for the first time. These canvases were painted live before an audience, usually over several days during transformational festivals like Symbiosis, or Burning Man. Additional works by Mars-1 & Ralph Steadman, Mars-1 & Alex Grey, and Mars-1 & Doze Green will also be on display.

Collaborative Paintings by:

The Furtherrr Collective – Mars-1, Oliver Vernon, Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, NomeEdonna. Mars-1 & DozeGreen, Mars-1 & AlexGrey, Mars-1 & Ralph Steadman

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Group Show | ONE STEP FURTHER

Group Show

“ONE STEP FURTHER”

November 11, 2021

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of “One Step Further” An exhibit of visionary and psychedelic art.

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The inaugural group show at the new Chambers Project gallery is an important moment in the history of psychedelic art. The gallery provides New Psychedelia with a professional and serious home, a stable sanctuary of credibility in the chaotic art world. Psychedelic art has come of age.

The paintings and sculptures include works by new masters and iconic figures from the genre’s history. Massive and spectacular canvases fill the gallery walls, immersing spectators into a visionary landscape of tumbling colors and shapes, toppling through space and sometimes spilling from the frames.

Spectacular twelve feet wide paintings by Mars-1 and Oliver Vernon dominate the space, and the two artists will paint new work for a live audience. These artists are destined for the history of art as pioneers of the new psychedelia. Mars-1 makes sensual, delicate paintings, surging out of their two-dimensional surface into the three-dimensional world. A trained painter, he has a sophisticated classical touch and a comforting sense of color which invites his audience to enjoy the sensual compositions he makes. He is influenced by the aesthetics of computer graphics, and has worked with the industry’s software, but, “discovered that I did a lot better when I didn’t have anyone art directing me, but I definitely used that experience as an opportunity to strengthen my paintings.”

New psychedelic art has carved out a niche in the contemporary art market. Curator Brian Chambers said, “The show ties the contemporary psychedelic world to the godfathers of the scene. The new school and the old school. It’s a celebration of all the major influences that have combined to shape new psychedelia. Now psychedelic art is something to be proud of. It’s proper and proud to declare yourself psychedelic. It’s appropriate and safe to do so. This is psychedelic art. This is who we are. I’m focused and specialized. Smaller galleries and smaller cities can have a bigger footprint these days. The field is gaining traction – a lot of new eyes are looking at it, and it’s moving into the blue-chip arena.”

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Oliver Vernon’s work began in the traditions of 1950’s abstraction, but the psychedelic experience transformed his work and his practice and has brought it an intense and colorful freshness. There’s no zombie abstraction here. Dramatic, and convincing, his work marks an evolution in the history of all-over painting. Vernon said, “The psychedelic experience was a key to unlocking a crazy force. Uninterrupted, no hesitation, pouring, shifting gears, and changing modes rapidly, without having to stop and contemplate what they should be. It was a revelation.

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Colin Prahl | GEODASIA

Colin Prahl

“GEODASIA”

June 1, 2022

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of Colin Prahl’s “GEODASIA” Solo Show

The hypnotic brain paintings of Colin Prahl will be on full display for Northern California viewers throughout the month of June. Prahl’s 16 works entitled “Geodaesia,” draw on the celestial and psychedelic while applying draftsman-like precision.

A native upstate New Yorker, Prahl attended RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) earning a B.A. in Illustration in 2012 before moving to New York City where he worked as a studio assistant to several prominent artists. His aesthetic has been shaped largely by his studies of perception, a lengthy exploration of neuroscience guiding his process.

The “Geodaesia” body of work attempts to capture a sense of deep space, the suggestion of other dimensions, and the intangible vibrations of the mind. Prahl works in acrylic airbrush and the result is shimmering expanses of color and texture that imply movement, auric, geometric canvases that appear to pulse right off the wall.
This is Prahl’s first solo show on the West Coast after growing interest in his contributions to a group show last year in Arizona. Owner Brian Chambers says, “It’s really exciting for us to bring Colin’s work to California, his paintings attracted so much attention in 2018. I think people are really going to be blown away when they see this show altogether. The effect is indescribable.”