DIGITAL SUPREMATISM

Tom R. Chambers has created 18"x24" posters to complement his project, "Black Square Embellished". "Black Square Embellished" comprises 30 pieces (20"x20" each) that reflect  Kazimir Malevich 's  "Black Square"  after glitch treatment. The glitch treatment is the embellishment of "Black Square" in each case, and it could be argued that it is also the defacement of the same. Is this act of changing the appearance or surface of "Black Square" for better or worse, or does it matter? Would Malevich disapprove of these digital renditions since he once stated, "there's nothing more after "Black Square"? Things evolve, and opinions change, and Chambers considers "Black Square Embellished" an evolution of sorts ... a move from Malevich's Suprematism towards Neo-Suprematism. There are those out there who might even interpret these pieces as Anti-Suprematism. Malevich's "Black Squa...

Tom R. Chambers has made 18"x24" posters to complement his project, "The Pixel as Suprematist/Minimalist Art". During the latter part of 2000, Chambers began to look at the  pixel  within the context of  Suprematist / Minimalist  art. He equated the pixel with the works of non-objective artists like  Vasily Kandinsky ,  Barnett Newman ,  Mark Rothko ,  Ad Reinhardt ,  Kazimir Malevich ,  Piet Mondrian  and others. They generated works to establish an abstract visual language of the sublime, pure color, geometric form, deep contemplation and metaphysical pursuit of the truth. The pixels or "Pixelscapes" - as he calls them - conform with many of these non-objective artists' works. They are a revelation for him when compared to these non-objective works generated many years before the pixel and Digital Revolution. It seems that he has managed to do what Kazimir Malevich and other Suprematists (Minimalists) have done through the simple ...