Dominic Chambers, Fast-Rising Figurative Painter, Heads to Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Dominic Chambers believes in self-care. The fast-rising figurative painter has gained recognition for expansive canvases in which the mundane and magical converge. In an early work, a woman sits on a couch absorbed in a book; the couch floats along an abstracted blue backdrop reminiscent of a rushing river. Themes of leisure and Black intellectualism run through his paintings.
“It’s important to present Black people in states other than distress and resistance,” Chambers said.