Biography

Lindy Chambers

Nationality: American
Dates: Born 1949
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Recent Press:
 

Watch an interview with Lindy Chambers and read the review on Sightlines about Lindy Chambers: Then and Now at Women & Their Work in Austin. Also, read the review by Barbara Purcell on Glasstire
 

Lindy Chambers announced as winner of the 2015 Alexander Rutsch Award and Solo Exhibition for Painting
 

Education:
 

1974 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, studied sculpture
1974 Albert Shakis Art Foundry, Houston, Texas, studied bronze casting
1968-1970 Guilford Technical Community College, High Point, North Carolina, studied graphic art
 

 

Exhibitions:
 

2021 Lindy Chambers, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas (July-September)
2021 Lindy Chambers: Gravel and Dirt, Fort Worth Community Art Center (January-March)
2020 Lindy Chambers, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas (October-December)
2020 On Being Human, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2020 Lindy Chambers: Obscura, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Bird Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery – 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)
2019 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2019, KBR Tower, Houston, Texas, juror: Jennie Goldstein, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
2019 34th Annual International Exhibition, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, juror: Christina Rees
2018 44 Artists from Texas, Part 2, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas
2018 Fifth Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Christina Rees
2018 Texas Vignette, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, juror: Erin K. Murphy
2018 46th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, Texas, jurors: Cesar Martinez, Angel Cabrales and Annie Moye (award winner)
2018 24th Annual Texas National 2018 Juried Competition and Exhibition, The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, juror: Jed Perl (honorable mention)
2018 Celebrates Texas Art, Assistance League of Houston, Houston, Texas, juror: Anna Katz
2018 Masur Museum 55th Competition, Outside Gallery, Monroe, Louisiana
2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 14th Semi-Annual Competition, Dave Bown Projects
2017 12th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California, juror: Mat Gleason
2017 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, juror: Toby Kamps
2017 Lindy Chambers: No Glass Slipper, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 Masur Museum 54th Competition, Monroe, Louisiana, juror: Gia Hamilton
2017 45th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, Texas, jurors: Cesar Martinez, Angel Cabrales and Annie Moye
2017 Celebrates Texas Art 2017, Assistance League of Houston, Houston, Texas, jurors: Jose Esparza, Chong Cuy and Pamela Alper
2016 The 16th Annual Juried Exhibition "American Art Today: What is American Art?," Loft Gallery, The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, North Carolina, juror: Dr. William U. Eiland
2016 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, jurors: Apsara DiQuinzio and Phylis C. Watts
2016 Ten by Sixty, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado
2016 The Texas National 2016, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas, juror: Abelardo Morell
2016 Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Eric M. Lee
2016 The Hunting Prize, Hunting PLC, Houston, Texas (finalist)
2016 Texas Biggest 10 for Art, Katy Contemporary Art Museum, Katy, Texas (prize winner)
2016 Valdosta National, Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, juror: Carrie Ann Baade
2016 Painting and Seeing, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, juror: John Beerman
2016 REMART 7, Fort Worth Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Nancy Lamb
2016 Somewhere in the Dark, ART 7, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Nancy Lamb
2015 Menagerie, Art and the Animal Kingdom, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2015 The Dairy Galleries, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado
2015 2015 Alexander Rutsch Award and Solo Exhibition for Painting: Lindy Chambers, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York
2015 Texas National 2015 Art Competition & Exhibition, The Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas
2015 The Hunting Art Prize, Hunting PLC, Houston, Texas (finalist)
2015 Expo 34, B J Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York, juror: Adrienne Rooney
2015 The Big Show, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, Texas
2015 Art Forward, Art Forward, Aspen, Colorado, juror: Maria Medua (silver award)
2015 Lindy Chambers: Curb Appeal, D. M. Allison Gallery, Houston, Texas
2015 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2015, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Texas Critters, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2014 Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, juror: Erin Elder
2014 Urban Underground, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, Illinois, juror: Christina Cosio
2014 Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas, jurors: Andrea Karnes and Ron Tyler
2013 Lindy Chambers: Paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Dwellers of the Land, The Gallery at Round Top, Round Top, Texas
2005 The Current-See of Art, Marfa Studio of Arts, Marfa, Texas
2005 Vast Show, 37th exhibition of Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, Texas
2004 Seismic Disturbance, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Chisolm Gallery, New York, Palm Beach, Florida (1996, 1997)
1996 Horses in Motion, International Museum of the Horse, Lexington, Kentucky
1995 New Works, Becker’s Books, Houston, Texas
1994 Tin Cans and Bottle Caps, Fergis & Ferandiz Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 Houston Art Directors Club, Houston, Texas
1993 Dallas Society of Visual Communications, Dallas, Texas
1993 MS Society Show, Houston Art Directors Club, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983 Glassell Spring Show, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1975 Dimension V, Art League, Houston, Texas
 

 

 

 

Literature:
 

Texas Vignette, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, juror: Erin K. Murphy, 2018, page 8.
 

“Shade You’ll Never Sit In,” Patron.com, August 17, 2017.
 

Axis 12th National: Juror, Mat Gleason, exhibition catalogue, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California, August 4, 2017. I Used to Be Somebody, Pick Up Artist and Give Me One Reason reproduced.
 

Sarah Haas, “American Dream,” Boulder Weekly, June 16, 2016. Available from http://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/arts-culture/american-dream/
 

Catherine Anspon, “Art Notes: A Houston Quartet,” PaperCity Houston, March 10, 2015. Available from http://www.papercitymag.com/arts/houston-quartet/
 

60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014; Checking Out the Neighbor’s Yard reproduced.
Richard Bailey, “Lindy Chambers: Paintings at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden,” Glasstire, August 2, 2013. Available from http://glasstire.com/2013/08/02/lindy-chambers-paintings-at-valley-house-gallery-sculpture-garden/, August 2, 2013.
 

Michael Granberry, “Go & Do – Galleries,” Dallas Morning News, July 26, 2013, Guide section, page 36.
 

J R Compton, “The New DallasArtsRevue Calendar,” DallasArtsRevue.com, July 23, 2013.
 

Michael Granberry, “Art Notes,” Dallas Morning News, July 21, 2013, Arts page 8E.
 

Sandra Ban, “Reviews: New York: ‘Seismic Disturbance’,” ArtNews, October 2004, Volume 103, page 188.
 

Tulane Review, Tulane University, Fall 2004.
 

 

Collections:
 

PJP Farms, Magnolia, Texas
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Ketchum, McCloud and Grove, Houston, Texas
The Republic Bank Building, Magnolia, Texas
Galerie Barbizon, Houston, Texas
HLH Enterprises, Houston, Texas

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