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Everything is Extraordinary: Tom Chambers and Fax Ayres


  • Chroma Projects 3rd Street Southeast Charlottesville, VA, 22902 United States (map)

Chroma Projects is also curating an exhibition in the Great Hall of Vault Virginia. We are pleased to open another March show for First Friday - "Tom Chambers and Fax Ayres: Everything is Extraordinary".  Both artists are photographers, working with theatre and light to describe the fantastical.

Tom Chamber's photographs are concerned with safeguarding the exquisite beauty, in youth's acceptance of magic and maintenance of innocence. With innocence often holding its ground in the character of a young girl making her way amid the less than friendly circumstances of a paradise pretty much lost.

Fax Ayres's compositions are assemblages of cast off scraps and abandoned artifacts, often anthropomorphised through juxtaposition. Objects convene in light, staged upon dark, into imagined fables and curious environments, resuming their forsaken value and proposing the paradoxes of the extra-ordinary.

The title is lifted from a quote by Aaron Rose “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.