Drie Chapek
Churning: Paintings and related collages
April 22 - May 29, 2021
We are pleased to announce our second one-person exhibition by Washington artist, Drie Chapek. The artist's deeply personal approach to oil painting incorporates images of both abstracted natural phenomena and human-made objects. Luscious impasto brush strokes along with thin washes of color allow the artist to explore humanity, emotion, and existential concerns.
The artist will also show collages used in the creation of her paintings. Drawing from nature, architecture, and fashion photography, art history, comic book illustration and other pop culture references, Chapek creates strange tableaus that play with scale, space, and color. Paintings are then created using the collages as reference material, adding texture and abstraction to distort the already disorienting compositions.
“Through the process of painting I witness and appreciate the variance as well as similarities between these natural and human made things.
This visual field creates a conscious space for the viewer to travel within the architectural construct of the image. Details of washes and lines collide with thick brush strokes and drags. The micro world of the paint and the macro world of the imagery allow for an abstracted reflection of the natural world, religion and pop culture to explore within the edges of the canvas.”
Work in exhibition
Oil and acrylic on canvas
48 x 52 inches
$8,500