High 5: Emerging Art In America

High 5: Emerging Art In America.
March - June 2007. CW Network Headquarters, Burbank CA

Five regional curators from across America each chose five artists to be part of this group exhibition.
The Curators: Regine Basha from Austin, Texas; Ben Heywood from Minneapolis, Minnesota; Matthew Higgs from Brooklyn, New York; Kathryn Kanjo from Santa Barbara, California; and Kristin Kennedy from Portland, Oregon.
The Artists: Elaine Bradford, Johanna Fauerso, Justin Goldwater, Jessica Halonen, Dario Robleto, Ryan Chamberlain, Kristen Scheile, Xavier Tavera, Lex Thompson, Eric Ullanderson, Matt Keegan, Joshua Shaddock, Greg Smith, Eric Beltz, Jenn Figg, Christine Gray, R. Nelson Parrish, Teja Ream, Brad Adkins, Chandra Bocci, Alex Felton, Corey Lunn, Adam Sorenson

David Pagel was a juror of sorts and also wrote an accompanying essay. There's a CORRECTION: The slim bio states I'm Instructor of Record at the University of Minnesota - that ended in 2006. I am currently an Adjunct in the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago.

Here's a snippet from the essay:

"Ryan Chamberlain's three little paintings are no bigger than sheets of notebook paper. But they pack so many visual shifts and dizzying collisions into their compact dimensions that they give viewers plenty of room to get lost in. "Weightless Machinery in Navigating a Garden," "Anti, Circa, Versus, Vis-à-Vis," and "Law of the Wall, Law of the Wake" show Chamberlain to be a nooks-and- crannies artist: a lover of the odd stuff that falls between the cracks, which he then turns into a world unto itself or, better yet, into worlds within worlds. He does so by transforming the unidentifiable detritus of graphic design into animated abstractions whose vivid Pop palettes recall cartoons and whose turbulent, gyroscoping energy evokes early 20th-century abstraction."
-David Pagel, 2007