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.

June 17th holds two very different anniversaries in the history of *rugs in America.
June 17, 1925 marks the birth of Al...
06/17/2026

June 17th holds two very different anniversaries in the history of *rugs in America.

June 17, 1925 marks the birth of Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, the chemist whose work would help shape modern psychedelic science, creating an extraordinary body of knowledge about consciousness, healing, and the human mind.

June 17, 1971 marks the day President Richard Nixon officially declared *rug use “public enemy number one,” launching what would become the War on *rugs.

One legacy is rooted in curiosity, research, and a belief that altered states of consciousness are important and worthy of study. The other ushered in decades of prohibition, mass incarceration, racial disparities in policing, and the near-total shutdown of psych research. Countless scientists lost access to their work. Patients lost access to potential treatments. Entire fields of inquiry were pushed underground.

While the War on Drugs sought to criminalize and suppress, Shulgin spent his life documenting, preserving, and expanding our understanding of psychoactive compounds with remarkable rigor and openness.

June 17 serves as a reminder that history is often shaped by competing visions, with fear on one side, and the future on the other 🌀✨

06/16/2026

AJ Masthay on the art of imperfection ✨

Known for his unique print style of creating some of the most iconic gig posters in the world, Masthay intentionally pushes the screenprinting process into unpredictable territory, layering dozens of colors and techniques in ways that make fatal mistakes a real possibility. Every print carries subtle variations and tactile evidence of the artist’s winding journey.

In an era where mediocre, flawless images can be generated endlessly, he believes inconsistency has become an invaluable currency of authenticity.

AOR-3.65 — “The Who Beetle”On this date in 1969, Rick Griffin’s unforgettable poster for The Who at the Hollywood Pallad...
06/13/2026

AOR-3.65 — “The Who Beetle”

On this date in 1969, Rick Griffin’s unforgettable poster for The Who at the Hollywood Palladium entered the visual bloodstream of the psychedelic era.

Catalogued in The Art of Rock as AOR-3.65, this now-iconic image was created for the June 13, 1969 Magic Circus show at the Hollywood Palladium. It stands as a perfect example of Griffin at full power: wild character design, razor-sharp linework, underground comix energy, and the explosive collision of rock music, surf culture, and countercultural art.

The image has endured for more than five decades and still feels alive, strange, funny, and completely original. Its influence continued well beyond this poster, living on through multiple later iterations, including Griffin’s Swan Song / Man From Utopia imagery.

Also featured on the bill was Poco & His Bonzo Dog Band, and the larger Magic Circus orbit included an extraordinary moment in music history, with artists such as Janis Joplin, Spirit, Mama Cass Elliott, David Crosby, and The Turtles all associated with the series.

A true classic from the Rick Griffin archive.

Special thanks to for helping keep this history alive and in front of new generations of collectors, fans, and artists.

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Just completed 🚀 largest solo piece to date 🌀
06/09/2026

Just completed 🚀 largest solo piece to date 🌀

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.

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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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