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THERE’S SOMETHING DREAMY and almost magical about the spaces rendered by Dominic Chambers in Birthplace, his new solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. They feel familiar and yet slightly out of space and time.

The large paintings and sculptures are surreal but grounded his first hometown museum exhibition, curated by former CAM chief curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi.

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