John Chamberlain

Is best known for creating sculptures from old automobiles (or parts of) that bring the Abstract Expressionist style of painting into three dimensions. Galvanized steel, then with mineral-coated Plexiglas, aluminum foil. Rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. In Sarasota, Florida, worked on a much grander scale, more volumetric, compact configurations, often aligned on a vertical axis. Chamberlain also made abstract colour paintings from 1963, and from 1967 he made several films, such as "Wide Point" (1968) and “The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez,” filmed in Mexico with Warhol regulars Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet. In the last decade of his life, the artist expanded his work to large-format photographs.