Boise State News March 17, 2021
Two exhibitions that were previously shown in the Student Union Building art galleries are available to tour virtually.
Character Development: Portrait Studies by Michael Chambers
Character Development: Portrait Studies by Michael Chambers plays with the process by which a simple sketch evolves into a more refined work, Michael Chambers completed more than 100 digital artworks over the past 18 months.
Michael Chambers, Coco 29, 2020, digital painting
“The process of creating, changing, adding lines and textures, experimenting, erasing, and re-working is endlessly fascinating,” Chambers said.
During this process, the artist continually asked himself when a work was complete or finished. Even with the ease of a tablet, a software that allowed infinite variations, and an imagination that proved ceaseless, Chambers found the answer to this question to be elusive and wildly different for each portrait; “finished” proved to be an i