Domesticity and revolution exist side by side in Ann Chamberlin's small to moderately-sized paintings and drawings, which are deceptively naïve in execution and appearance. Like dollhouses, they depict domestic worlds in microcosm, landscapes seen from a bird's eye view. Yet Chamberlin insists she draws "from the inside, not from 'life'." Hers are not portraits of actual places but are instead glimpses of an interior world — that of the artist's own consciousness — which is often visited by brutality and violence. Although the scale is small, Chamberlin's works often depict crowds of people who are together yet occupied in vastly different activities or thought processes. Most recently her works have become even more overtly concerned with themes of disaster: country shoot-outs, molotov cocktail skirmishes, raging fires, war and flash floods are depicted in a naïve folk-art style that, atypically for the genre, unsettles us and tests our comfort levels. Chamberlin received her BFA in 1976 from La Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986.