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Brian Chambers is an American art curator and gallery owner specializing in psychedelic art.

Chambers was born 22nd June 1979. He now lives in Grass Valley, California, and owns and directs The Chambers Project, an art gallery and metal foundry and fabrication studio in Nevada City, California.

Career
Chambers began his exploration of art curation in 1996 when he discovered the work of Ralph Steadman, the eccentric creator of satirical cartoons especially known for his gonzo work with Hunter Thompson. When Chambers read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and saw how the art complemented the writing, he “was blown away by how the writer and the visual artist could collaborate like that. It affected me on a deeper level and helped shape my current interests, to some degree.” Rick Griffin, the designer of Grateful Dead posters and psychedelic comic books of the seventies underground drug subculture was another powerful influence. He now represents the work of both artists.

When Chambers saw a picture of Mario Martinez’ (Mars1) painting titled "Mental and Material Realms" in Juxtapoz Magazine in 2008, he was impressed, and formed a collective psychedelic art project called Furtherrr, commissioning painters Mars-1, Oliver Vernon and Damon Soule to create a collaborative painting over three days at the Symbiosis Gathering in Yosemite in Fall of 2009. This experience had a profound effect on Chambers, and he said, “At Symbiosis, I could tell that everything changed, that I was going to be deeply involved in that kind of art in the future.” He continued organizing similar art events for the collective in Arizona. Other early influences on Chambers include the work of painter Alex Grey, who is renowned for his “psychedelic kundalini” imagery and his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York. Chambers got to know Grey and, in March 2021, sold four of his paintings to a Silicon Valley coder for $1,000,000.

Galleries
His first attempt to open a gallery space was in a beautiful late 19th-century house he bought in Denver, Colorado but this effort was prevented by zoning laws, and the first Chambers Projects gallery opened in Nevada City, California on July 11, 2018, with a group show of a “trippy, abstract, psychedelic oeuvre with an emphasis on collaborative explosions of color and shape.” He has exhibited work by the Australian art Leans, Miles Toland and Julian Vadas, Christian Calabro, Colin Prahl, Hollie Dilley, Justin Lovato. In summer of 2019 Chambers organized a show of line drawings by Jacaeber Kastor, a pioneering curator of psychedelic art, and former owner of the successful Psychedelic Solution gallery in New York’s West Village.

Bronze Foundry
Adjacent to his new Nevada City gallery space Chambers has built a foundry and metal fabrication space, where he produces limited edition casts of sculptures, including works by Rick Griffin.

NFT’s
Chambers was instrumental in producing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT’s) for fine artists early in the emergence of the new artform, producing and marketing a single edition of an MPEG animation of Roger Dean’s Floating Islands which sold for $22,222, a limited edition of 777 files of Dean’s Green Parrot Island, priced at $333 each, netting sales of $258,741, and an open edition of Dean’s Explore, which sold 267 pieces, priced at $999 each during the brief seven-minute window it was offered, netting sales of $266,733.