Donald Shambroom

Visual Artist and Writer

Donald Shambroom is a visual artist and writer whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1973, after graduating from Yale University where he studied philosophy and painting, Shambroom moved to Boston to pursue his career as a painter. His work has been shown at Francis Naumann Gallery and Half Gallery in New York, and at Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. For the past decade, he has lived and worked on the banks of the Millers River in north central Massachusetts.

 

Shambroom’s book Duchamp’s Last Day was published by Zwirner Books in 2018, with a second edition in 2024. He is completing his next, much longer work Mirror Image: Marcel Duchamp and Leonardo da Vinci.

 

Concurrently, he is in the midst of two large groups of paintings. Artists at Work are unmediated portraits of musicians, painters, writers inside of themselves, in a microcosm, sculpting sound or the meaning of two adjacent words, meditating on the color between two converging rectangles. In the group The New World children eight months old and younger explore the movements of their bodies and all of their senses, in an unknown but intriguing world, the earliest microcosm.

from ARTISTS AT WORK—Herbie Hancock

from THE NEW WORLD—Red is Yellow, Yellow is Red