Chance and casual freedom seem to exceed the order within the work. Reality seems more capricious than any order it holds. This disparity between reality and its order is the most radical and important aspect of Chamberlain’s sculpture.
- Donald Judd quoted in: Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Gallery, John Chamberlain: New Sculpture, February – March 1989, p. iv

John Chamberlain in his Greene Street studio, New York City, 1964. Art © 2025 John Chamberlain / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image © Ugo Mulas Heirs/All rights reserved