The Chambers Project

The Chambers Project Brian Chambers
Gallery Owner/Curator
The Global Epicenter of Psychedelic Art
🏆 PACT - Psychedelic Arts and Culture Trust

The Chambers Project is the world’s leading psychedelic art gallery representing the most influential contemporary artists in psychedelic culture, holding long standing relationships with the likes of Ralph Steadman, Roger Dean, the Rick Griffin Estate, Oliver Vernon and Mars 1. Deeply immersed in the psychedelic scene since the mid nineties, owner/curator Brian Chambers has dedicated his life's w

ork to connecting the dots between art and the psychedelic state, culminating in the opening of his most recent gallery space in Grass Valley, California.

WIP of largest piece to date 🏙️✨
06/03/2026

WIP of largest piece to date 🏙️✨

Join us on June 19th at The Center for the Arts in downtown Grass Valley for the opening of “Ripple Effect: Art + Music ...
06/01/2026

Join us on June 19th at The Center for the Arts in downtown Grass Valley for the opening of “Ripple Effect: Art + Music + Psychedelia,” an immersive exhibition exploring the enduring influence of the psychedelic movement across art, music, and culture.

Co-curated by Sarah Coleman and Brian Chambers, the exhibition brings together historic and contemporary works that trace the moment when psychedelic experience began reshaping the creative landscape.

At the heart of the exhibition is a selection of works from The Chambers Project, whose artists have helped define and expand the language of contemporary psychedelic art for a new generation.

More than a retrospective, “Ripple Effect” examines how a cultural movement continues to reverberate through the present, influencing the way we create, connect, and imagine.

This is a FREE all-ages event. We hope you’ll join us!

Friday, June 19th. 7-9pm
Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, CA

05/21/2026

Dennis Larkins is one of the great architects of psychedelic live performance. Through towering hand-painted sets and immersive visual environments, helped turn concerts into alternate realities for bands like Led Zeppelin, Santana, The Rolling Stones, and of course, the Grateful Dead.

For the opening of our “60 Years of the Grateful Dead” retrospective back in December, Brian Chambers commissioned this epic three-dimensional piece, entitled “Magic Bu,s” with hopes of it becoming the official poster for the show.

Created using a proprietary mix of materials he’s been working on perfecting for forty years, it depicts countercultural legends parked at the Highway 49 crossing over the iconic Yuba River in Nevada County, where the gallery is located.

A conflict ultimately prevented us from being able to make this piece the official poster for this show, but that doesn’t make it any less iconic.

Dennis Larkins tells the story.

05/20/2026

On September 22, 1967, the Grateful Dead played their first show in Denver at the newly opened Family Dog, the psychedelic outpost founded by Chet Helms. For the occasion, artist Dennis Nolan created one of the era’s most unforgettable posters, hiding the words “Grateful Dead” inside a set of grinning teeth.

The night marked a turning point in more ways than one. It was among the first shows to formally include Mickey Hart as a member of the band, expanding the Dead’s rhythm section into the thunderous, shape-shifting force that would define their sound for decades to come.

Brian Chambers tells the story.

05/18/2026

The Summer of 1990 marked a profound turning point in the world of the Grateful Dead, a moment where the band’s orbit seemed to stretch farther than ever before 🛸

The Europe ’90 tour expanded the band’s reach across the globe, but it would also quietly mark the closing chapter of one of the most legendary creative relationships in countercultural history: Rick Griffin creating artwork for the Grateful Dead 🥀

Before his tragic motorcycle accident in 1991, Griffin completed three final works tied to this era: “Leaping Tiger,” the cover for “Without a Net,” and the iconic “Europe 1990” painting.

Brian Chambers tells the story.

Ralph Steadman has been a critical and foundational character in my life since discovering his work in 1995. I literall...
05/15/2026

Ralph Steadman has been a critical and foundational character in my life since discovering his work in 1995. I literally can’t imagine my life or where I’d be without him. 

Happy 90th trip around the sun ol’ pal! Thanks for everything and long live the king! 👑

The last pic is from when we celebrated Ralph’s 80th birthday at Chequer’s bar in Maidstone, UK, in walking distance from his house.

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627 E. Main Street
Grass Valley, CA
95959

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Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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