The Rutkowski Loop posits that the same painting is not. I owe it all to Walter Rutkowski. He was my professor at LSU who said something like this to me…
Mike ChambersOctober 15, 2022
Here's what I wrote about Fadeaway Bike way back in 2014: It was time to paint a bike fading out and fading in at the same time.
Mike ChambersAugust 26, 2022
Two sisters, Shirley and Betty Jo, had one bike. Not each. Just one bike. They had to share, in other words. It took a year or two to get the…
Mike ChambersMay 6, 2022
I love this exhibition tool -- it's called ArtSteps. It lets you wander virtually through a gallery of all of my bicycle art. Enjoy!
Mike ChambersMay 6, 2022
What's the word for that feeling called when you coast out of the driveway and look up and see the sky, really see it, for the first time in the…
Mike ChambersJune 28, 2022
The whole print-your-art-on-anything has got me wondering. How many artists are producing awesome bike art for throw pillows? I don't know about other kinds of artists, but for Bicycle Pillow…
Mike ChambersJune 19, 2022
It's starting to dawn on me that things are changing for the better. Finally. So I'm celebrating that with a painting of a bicycle casting morning shadows on a French…
Mike ChambersMay 7, 2022
Here's a new painting named for our neighborhood in New Orleans between Baronne and Dryades. I Dream of Milan, oil on canvas
Mike ChambersMay 8, 2022
Here's state 3 of the new block print, The Goodwill Bike. It's 4 x 6 inches.
Mike ChambersMay 8, 2022
The "Four Eyes: An Optical Collusion" exhibition opened tonight. This is the Treasure Valley Artists' Alliance's latest show and the theme is all about celebrating collaborations. Lauren and I painted…
Mike ChambersMay 9, 2022
For the upcoming "Four Eyes" show, Lauren T. Kistner and I collaborated on a painting. A couple weeks ago we started brainstorming, which escalated to exchanging emails and lists of…
Mike ChambersMay 9, 2022
Back in the studio today, working on a painting of a bike, of all things. It's called Caravaggio's bike because: Caravaggio didn't have a bike. I actually have an Artistic…
Mike ChambersMay 9, 2022
It started a long time ago. My parents have home movies of me riding my bike as a kid. When I first learned to ride, my method for stopping was…
Mike ChambersMay 9, 2022
I painted a bunch of little canvases with a naples yellow ground and I'm having fun experimenting with different approaches and styles. These are photos of a few of 'em…
Mike ChambersMay 9, 2022
Just found this photo of the actual street in New Orleans that inspired the Bike Alley series. The owner of the house was a pirate married to a princess and…
Mike ChambersMay 9, 2022