About

Before Kaninhoved

Kaninhoved is Danish for "rabbit head," a nod to Chamberlin's own heritage. He kept it because it read the way he wanted the work to feel: spare, a little strange, not built for easy agreement.

Rabbit head

Kaninhoved is Danish for "rabbit head," a nod to Chamberlin's own heritage. He kept it because it read the way he wanted the work to feel: spare, a little strange, not built for easy agreement.

No Undo

Chamberlin was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Thirty years of client work built an instinct for precision, structure, and controlled complexity. Painting is the deliberate counterforce — a space with no undo, no revision history, no frictionless perfection. Now based in Colorado, he runs that same rigor straight into the raw, irreversible language of paint. The result sits at the collision of intuition and structure, where invention is tactile, risk stays visible, and every decision leaves a mark.

Adjacent Universes

The large-scale abstractions read like landscapes from an adjacent universe — geometric bands and rhythmic dot systems holding against color fields of turquoise, lavender, electric pink, brooding blue, until a gesture cuts through and a buried layer surfaces underneath.

Selected Works

Rain Over There, Eight, Stockholm 67 — distant storms, coded landscapes, moments of luminous rupture. Structure and instability, trading places from one canvas to the next.

Plastic Sheeting

In a basement in Boulder County, Bil Chamberlin paints. The walls are wrapped in plastic sheeting instead of drywall — a temporary measure, or maybe a permanent one. It's been long enough that it's hard to say which.

Built, Then Erased

Chamberlin works in recycled paint and found materials, building up and erasing in layers — burying marks, then digging them back out — until the surface holds visible time. Unstable, layered, and unmistakably made by hand.

Select Art

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