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As in the floating staircase currently on view at D. R. Evarts Library titled Neutra/ Duiker Ascent (for its architects), the exacting litho ink drawings of REBECCA CHAMBERLAIN result from an intense poetry of process. Seen here the artist's renderings of architectural photography may seem to capture a gravity of hindsight. In the image above from a recent visit to the artist's studio in Delhi, New York, Chamberlain's work meaningfully tilts perspectives of the master plan to insist on a view from the ground.

In the Library, Neutra/ Duiker Ascent 1925-1964, (2017) combines images of the VDL Research House and Zonnestraal, two important examples of the movement toward ‘light, air and openness’ in architecture. Using photographs taken on distinct site visits to the house and sanatorium aided by archival collections at California Polytechnic State University and those intimately connected to the Netherlands facility, Chamberlain writes:

...in general, the colors of the Zonnestraal have both influenced and justified my use of a very light titanium/cobalt gesso layer and the continuation of the reflex blue for painting the images. The walls of the sanatorium were a very light blue in order to create a seamless reflection of sun and sky in the space.

This success in postwar hospital and factory construction continues to influence the design of homes today.

In its inherited international blue Chamberlain’s work honors the intent toward health and leisure for all, while interrogating the reliance on mass manufacture. Ruptured by the rhetorics of biodesign on the one hand, and industrial methodology on the other, Chamberlain’s work is a compassionate exploration of the home as asylum and healer.

Selections from the above will be included in a solo exhibition focusing on Los Angeles architecture; how it is shaped by our need for views of the horizon, this September at Charlie James Gallery. For more on Chamberlain please visit the artist's website. For more on Neutra or Duiker check out Survival by Design (Oxford University Press: 1954) and the Zonnestraal Sanatorium, respectively. For more from our exhibition, please visit Athens Library and stay tuned — show continues through October, 2017.