DIGITAL SUPREMATISM

 DS - Black Circle utilizing a gallery wall simulation:

  "Post Scriptum +8 100" Interview April 07, 2022 One Month Gallery (OMG) curators, Moscow, Russia: Tom R. Chambers is a Texan with a 'Russian, Suprematist soul.  He has repeatedly introduced the modern trend of new media art to the masses. He has brought Minimalism to the pixel. In 2000, Chambers began to look at the pixel in the context of Abstraction and Minimalism. And he is currently working with interpretations of Kazimir Malevich’s 'Black Square' and other Suprematist forms. His work calls our attention to visual singularity, which is all that we see in the digital universe. Since the pixel corresponds to what we call 'subatomic particles' in our physical universe, Chambers’ work connects us directly with the feeling of Russian Suprematism, described as the spirit that pervades everything, and pays tribute to the faith in the ability of abstraction to convey net feeling in the work. Interview with Tom R. Chambers (TRC):  OMG:  How did you get involv...

  Tom R. Chambers is a visual artist (digital/new media and mixed media), documentarian, curator and educator with over 100 personal exhibitions worldwide. He has also curated numerous exhibitions in the U.S.A., Zimbabwe, China and India. My Dear Malevich/Red Sweep Black Square, Suprematism Infinity: Reflections, Interpretations, Explorations (Group Show), Atrium Gallery, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York City, New York, U.S.A., December 1, 2015 – January 22, 2016.Image – center, left to right: Tom R. Chambers and Mark Khidekel (artist/architect). Mark Khidekel is the son of Lazar Khidekel, the artist/architect who studied with Kazimir Malevich. Art Gallery, Fine Arts Department, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China (April 2 – 15, 2007). He is currently working with the pixel as Minimalist Art, Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square” and Suprematism. His “My Dear Malevich” project has received international acclaim, and it was shown as a part of “Suprematism Infinity: Ref...

Tom R. Chambers has  taken six pieces from his "Digital Suprematism" project and reworked their colors to reflect the Ukrainian flag (blue and yellow) to stand with the people of this country to fight against tyranny/authoritarianism. Courtesy of Wikipedia: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Main articles:  2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis  and  2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine In spring 2021, Russia began building up troop strengths along its border with Ukraine. On 22 February 2022, Russian President  Vladimir Putin  ordered military forces to enter the breakaway Ukrainian republics of  Donetsk  and  Luhansk , calling the act a "peacekeeping mission". Putin also officially recognized Donetsk and Luhansk as sovereign states, fully independent from the Ukrainian government. In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and de-Nazify" Ukraine. A large-scale invasion was launched. La...

Tom R. Chambers  put together a support piece for the Ukrainian people (as a result of Russia's attack on their country, 2022) based on his "My Dear Malevich" project: MY DEAR MALEVICH (MDM) (supabsmin.blogspot.com) and the country's flag. Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematism art movement, was born (Polish descent) in Kyiv, Ukraine. Chambers has superimposed several of the art pieces from the project onto the geometric pattern (two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow) of the flag. The pieces are blended into the color fields to indicate solidarity.

Artists throughout millennia have been under the influence of a power base. Contemptibility in society coupled with political insensitivity quells the creative spirit. In Kazimir Malevich's case (founder of the Suprematism art movement): After the October Revolution (1917), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission (all from 1918/1919). He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR (now part of Belarus) (1919/1922), the Leningrad Academy of Arts (1922/1927), the Kyiv State Art Institute (1927/1929), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad (1930). He wrote the book, The World as Non-Objectivity , which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959. In it, he outlines his Suprematist theories. In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture. He painted his "Black Cross" the same year. The institute wa...

BLACK SQUARE DISPLACEMENT - Utilization of Kazimir Malevich's Artworks, 1900-1914. Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" is utilized as a transformational zone to displace his artworks, 1900-1914. These artworks were created prior to his Suprematism and "Black Square". Malevich might approve of this treatment since he became bored with most, if not all, art movements and their creations. More than likely, he looked back on his early artworks ... including his Cubist experimentations ... in the same manner, and probably wondered why he had not reached the Suprematist state sooner. To displace is to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. This shift in the following "Black Square Displacement" images transforms Malevich's artworks into abstractions that go beyond the art movements ... Impressionism, Pointillism, Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Cloisonnism, Art Nouveau (Modern), Fauvism, Naïve Art (Primi...