Three Things You Should Know About Matthew Chambers

1. Matthew Chambers’s practice involves painting nearly every day, without his glasses. Narration, symbolism, and destruction are commonly found in his paintings.

2. When he is unhappy with a painting he tears it into strips and uses them for future works. Strips of canvas are often employed in his works; he calls these his “slash paintings.”

3. His works can be found in the Zabludowicz Collection, the Saatchi Collection, and the Tate Britain.

Find Chambers’s work in the TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art auction, 2013.