Charlotte Chambliss is a native of Dallas, Texas.  She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. For thirty-one years Charlotte taught high school studio art and art history in several Dallas schools. She has also been involved in working with other art educators and students as an independent workshop consultant, tutor, and consultant for the Advanced Placement Art and Design Program. 

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Artist Statement

While there is a vein of consistency running throughout much of my work, the forms it has taken are somewhat diverse. During my last years of college, I broke with realism and began developing non-representational, geometric mixed-media paintings that explored the subtle nuances of color interactions, textures, and patterns.  After spending several years working through various aspects of this, including painting over recognizable subjects, I turned away and began working on a smaller scale in altered books. 

 

There is something challenging in developing imagery in response to a given visual prompt. In working over the pages of an actual book, I found myself not just responding to the text and images but also to the design layout of the page - the geometric organization. I became particularly interested in late 50's/early 60's hardcover magazines such as Horizon, Venture, and Art In America. I created several thematically based books incorporating drawing, painting, journaling, collage, and photographic imagery.

 

After being confined to the small format of books, I was inspired to develop imagery similar to the altered book pieces but on a larger scale. This resulted in work that incorporated polaroid and digital photo transfers, often with the addition of text and paint; as well as several compositions of patterned layers created with collaged ephemera reminiscent of the geometric paintings from my earlier years. Most recently,  I have begun to cut up old paintings on paper and reassemble them into new designs as well as to begin a new series of large-scale geometric acrylic paintings on canvas.