Grayson Chandler

"Hydrozoa Study", Watercolor, Abstract, Contemporary Art, Emerging Artist

2021

Grayson Chandler is an eminent emerging artist from Houston, Texas. Chandler received his BFA in Studio Arts in 2018 from the University of North Texas. Primarily a painter, Grayson Chandler's oil and watercolor artworks have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in various galleries and museums in Texas, and the West Coast. Chandler's style is serenely abstract, and biomorphic in design. Fascinated by the intrinsic order and beauty of nature, Grayson’s work attempts to capture and abstract its character in a manner that is uncanny, yet familiar. Deeply curious about the forces that govern human reason and faith, Chandler's work probes the amphibious network linking logic, intuition, consciousness, and emotion. Through this perspective, we are encouraged to draw upon our own experience as a means of shaping the border between real and imaginary. Moreover, we are encouraged to explore how the shape of our experience shapes how we see, and how what we see is largely colored by what we can recognize. Within this aesthetic, the spectator is invited to enter a space that meditates on the means through which we conceive and assign meaning to form. Grayson writes, "On the periphery of our perception, is a territory in which known and unknown blend together in a range of interpretations. I think it helps to conceptualize this range not as a static circumference around which interpretations are plotted like numerals, but instead like an expanding landscape. Forging this landscape is an ecosystem, and like any ecosystem — whether literal or metaphorical — it is alive. This is what my work attempts to materialize; a space where the scope of our imagination is given ground to explore the ways we conceive meaning in a manner similar to the way life evolves in tandem with its environment."