Artists at Work
The faces of artists at work are not mediated, not posed to express, for example, power, curiosity, joy or fear. The artists are inside of themselves, creating music, sculpting with their voices, studying the sound and meaning of two adjacent words, meditating on a gap dividing two painted rectangles. Often the artists’ faces are illuminated by stage lights for live crowds of thousands, or an audience a thousand times as large, glued to screens around the world. But the artists are inside of themselves, inventing, honing and modulating their creations to more powerfully express themselves. Shambroom searches for rare revealing moments, watching dozens of hours of pianists improvising, or painters thinking and talking about their work, to catch an instant when the artist’s face becomes a human microcosm, containing and revealing a world within a world.
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Herbie Hancock](/static/16ed41d5f11b9b353d6c7a6fcf6c90a1/76572/Herbie%20Hancock.jpg)
Herbie Hancock
2018
Oil on Wood
14 x 18 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Jimi Hendrix](/static/3bdec68174f9714a8c3ef23da7489b29/81a18/Jimi%20Hendrix.jpg)
Jimi Hendrix
2018
Oil on Wood
18 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Ginger Baker](/static/9c9fb2f42ee558be343329d3766974f2/e2f90/Ginger%20Baker.jpg)
Ginger Baker
2018
Oil on Wood
14 x 18 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Mick Jagger](/static/50d72250300bae4a090b3166bffa4740/53fb7/Mick%20Jagger.jpg)
Mick Jagger
2018
Oil on Wood
18 x 18 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Oscar Morillo](/static/d06fbb6145607bc9e6c429bfdf3c4e2d/f2b73/Oscar%20Morillo.jpg)
Oscar Murillo
2018
Oil on Wood
18 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Eric Clapton](/static/7a559f8b2db9cec82024615821d8bb21/df43f/Eric%20Clapton.jpg)
Eric Clapton
2018
Oil on Wood
18 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Jim Morrison](/static/a4856cf3d8f285010c7da23c447780b7/3cc9b/Jim%20Morrison.jpg)
Jim Morrison
2018
Oil on Wood
18 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of McCoy Tyner](/static/eb4719547498a85aa87747f4c86b3512/f7057/McCoy%20Tyner.jpg)
McCoy Tyner
2018
Oil on Wood
11 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Barnett Newman](/static/cc532ff00be6bab751773292a2da4f26/60562/Barnett%20Newman.jpg)
Barnett Newman
2019
Oil on Wood
18 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of David Bowie](/static/532d92be16ab9c59906c1e13b0ece07f/782e8/David%20Bowie.jpg)
David Bowie
2019
Oil on Wood
18 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Jeff Buckley](/static/2480d5337570b9e7df8b28cdb1d5e1b4/fe1a2/Jeff%20Buckley.jpg)
Jeff Buckley
2019
Oil on Wood
14 x 18 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Kurt Cobain](/static/ee92c70a0be40bc72a35286f40d6f66e/32670/Kurt%20Cobain.jpg)
Kurt Cobain
2019
Oil on linen
12 X 12 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Bob Dylan](/static/05db2f2da5579490227886c4c2e9629b/d98da/Bob%20Dylan.jpg)
Bob Dylan
2019
Oil on linen
12 x 12 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Bob Dylan](/static/d5b8a6e19476021fd162362ce1b3cec0/4bd5f/Allen%20Ginsberg%20copy.jpg)
Allen Ginsberg
2018
Oil on wood
11 x 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Joe Cocker](/static/0ba4ba39e113effe496c7ee13b068f1b/eae95/Joe%20Cocker.jpg)
Joe Cocker Singing the Long Note I
2019
Oil on Wood
18 x 18 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Joe Cocker](/static/a8c454d7473e5baad00211dc06176a82/6afaf/Joe%20Cocker%202.jpg)
Joe Cocker Singing the Long Note II
2019
Oil on Wood
14 X 14 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Theloneous Monk](/static/67fdddbaf1f3b071f2f1d13c2739e0f9/2b828/Theloneous%20Monk.jpg)
Theloneous Monk
2019
Oil on Wood
18 x 18 inches
![Donald Shambroom Artist at Work Painting of Theloneous Monk](/static/3de47f1bbcae74fa2de03bf49dc983a1/3526d/Frank%20Zappa.jpg)
Frank Zappa
2019
Oil on Wood
14 x 14 inches