Chad Airhart
Surface Habitation
2009

Name: Surface Habitation
Brand: Chad Airhart
Price: 4000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

ARTIST STATEMENT My paintings develop from two basic forces—chaos and control. I see this polarity of extremes as the ambivalent to and fro of decision and uncertainty, observation and imagination, and the incessant struggle between impetuous enthusiasm and intellectual detachment. The subject matter of my work originates from nature, and I usually find inspiration from a hike or short walk. I am drawn to the myriad worlds of gathering people, flower clusters and social insects as means to both an imaginary fiction and as reliable design modules to lend structure and unity. I experiment with the ambiguity between figure and ground, color schemes, tactile surfaces, and different sequences of gestures that create rhythm and asymmetrical balance. The act of painting captures relative states of mind and isolated emotions, and eventually the painting begins to take shape with its own identity. I place my art in the modernist aesthetic tradition which includes Expressionism (Abstract, German, and Neo-), Post Impressionism, Cubism, and several contemporary artists such as Frank Auerbach, John Alexander, and Terry Winters. In this vein is a formal concern for spatial compression, paint application, texture, and color as carrier of meaning. As a performance in experimentation and problem-solving, a painting suggests an autonomous act of personal freedom within its formal and iconographical components. - Chad Airhart

Creator:

Chad Airhart (1971, American)

Creation Year:

2009

Dimensions:

Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century