CHESS BRODNICK

Artist

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Chess Brodnick is an American contemporary artist and psychotherapist. His current work focuses on portraiture and painting. A realist portrayal of faces and figures that are a dynamic representation of life. The artist’s psychological images emerge in startling and provocative ways, unfolding profound internal and external emotion onto the canvas.

Chess has shown his art in dozens of successful exhibits in Manhattan and Los Angeles.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Realism and abstraction are interwoven in my work, as each is a component of a dynamic representation of life. Come view my paintings and enter into a divergent discovery of yourself.”

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Exploring creative depths

Faces are what interest me most as an artist. To me, it is the most expressive and defining part of a person and is ripe for creative expression.

The paintings included here are part of a series of self-portraits representing my response to events in my life. The paintings portray a combination of my inner and outer reactions simultaneously. The abstract "field" reflects my thoughts and emotions to a specific event as though they were transformed and projected outside of my head. The face is at times "fractured" or abbreviated to show the impact of the event as it occurs in time. Life is not linear and art is the perfect way to capture this.

The painting as a whole is more truthful as a portrait as it distills who I am on canvas at a moment in time.