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James Chadwick
"The Anatomy of Noise"

2024

$9,500
£7,174.02
€8,213.59
CA$13,416.48
A$14,647.59
CHF 7,679.13
MX$177,900.60
NOK 95,899.85
SEK 90,555.03
DKK 61,305.72

About the Item

In The Anatomy of Noise, James Chadwick dissects chaos with a surgeon's intuition and a poet's unrest. Drawing visual language from the raw urgency of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chadwick builds a frenetic yet strangely harmonious composition using a restrained palette of tans, ochres, and muted browns. These earthy tones ground the work, giving it a sun-bleached quality like something unearthed rather than painted, a relic whispering from the margins of a forgotten metropolis. Layered over this subdued foundation is a web of linework, symbols, half-formed figures, and erratic text fragments each scribble a pulse, each glyph a syllable in the larger noise of being. Chadwick's photographs playfully reference a painting process. The title, The Anatomy of Noise, suggests a forensic analysis of disorder, as if Chadwick is peeling back the skin of the modern experience to expose its jagged, rhythmically twitching nerves. There's a tension here between the visceral and the intellectual, the personal and the political. Ultimately, this photograph doesn’t ask to be understood linearly. It demands to be felt, decoded, lived with. In Chadwick’s hands, noise becomes something sacred, a language of resistance, memory, and transformation.
  • Creator:
    James Chadwick
  • Creation Year:
    2024
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 53 in (134.62 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Brooklyn, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1227216978172

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