Chambliss Giobbi is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Giobbi creates collages and sculptures that explore figurative abstraction rendered through the use of multiple perspectives. By presenting a number of different viewpoints all at once the artist captures the evolving nature of individual character as made manifest through the lens of synchronicity and time.

Portrait of Alice O’Malley (2008) portrays a multi-faceted countenance that twists out of darkness while dressed in clothes that appear to fray and tatter. However upon closer view, this piece reflects the subject in different outfits, at different moments, within one physical space over the course of one day. An earlier piece titled Head 1from 1998 renders a portrait of an older man whose face tilts and shifts above his tie-fastened shirt collar. Two recent sculptures titled Mobius Beltway (2012) and Mobius Off-Ramp (2013) utilize dozens of toy cars that are assembled into the circumventing strip of infinity, winding throughout space without beginning or end, while suspended from the ceiling.

Since receiving Guggenheim, NEA and NYFA fellowships for music composition, Chambliss Giobbi has exhibited in numerous exhibitions. In 2008 the artist had one solo show titled Time and Again that took place at Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York that was followed by another titled Urban Myth at MiTO Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo in Barcelona, Spain. In 2010 Giobbi was given a solo show at VOLTA NY by MiTO Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo and was also part of a two-person show, curated by Monica Bowman at The Butcher’s Daughter in Detroit, Michigan.

During that same year his work also appeared in a group show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and then at Detroit’s Oakland University Art Gallery in an exhibition titled Borders and Frontiers: Globalization, Temporality and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, curated by Dick Goody. In 2012 101/Exhibit located in Miami, Florida hosted a solo show for the artist titled SE7N: The Seven Deadly Sins. Chambliss Giobbi will present new collages in three upcoming group shows – Eye on the Storm at the Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on view from June 13th to June 26th; Head at BOSI Contemporary in New York City that will open on July 8th and close on August 11th; and Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center curated by Pavel Zoubok and Rachel Lawe for the Katonah Museum in Westchester, New York on view from June 30th to October 13th, 2013.