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Born 1963 in New York City, USA
For 17 years, Chambliss Giobbi was a composer of classical music. He was also making art between compositions. Eventually, he realized how he needed them to be combined. Through photography, he could capture people at many moments in time; through collage, he could compress those moments, and the experience of them, into one rigorous image. This idea was a cathartic discovery for him: “I stopped composing, but without my musical background I would be lost as an artist.”
Essentially, Giobbi has been developing a kind of "temporal cubism". Whereas the cubists justify three dimensions in relation to the flat canvas surface, he attempts to justify elapses of time in relation to the autonomous image. If the complexities and depth of a three-dimensional form can be unfolded and represented two dimensionally while maintaining the integrity of the object, why can’t the passing of time be compressed so that myriad experiences can be rendered as a defined episode?
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 Chambliss Giobbi, Herod (self-Portrait) |
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 Chambliss Giobbi, Tanz fuer Mich Salome (Dance for Me Salome - Self Portrait) |
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 Chambliss Giobbi, Norn |
