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

GRASS VALLEY, CA

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.”