Last week, I had the chance to go to the opening reception for a show representing a favorite contemporary artist of mine, Chad Wys.
Chad Wys is a young artist and graduate of Illinois State University, whose passion for art and art history is affirmed by his burgeoning client list, which ranges from Vice Magazine to Harvard Business Review and Penguin Press.
Wys deals with mixed media, dabbling with ready made art and re-appropriating thrift finds and historical artworks, and marries realism and impressionsim with abstraction in revealing his unique ethos.
He gives commentary where it’s due: Take this clever piece of his of a burka masked over a realist oil painting copy of a young lady:
Beautiful and poignant, isn’t it?
Je joins aux présentes, à titre de rappel, un aide-mémoire présentant les engagements de Wys:
“Untitled”, my favorite. It’s tiny! The size of a letter page– an example of art best viewed digitally, at least for one lady.
Thrift Store Landscape w/ Large Bars, 2013. If you’d like to purchase a fashion product parallel to this, visit: Ghurka.
Trending Recent works
If you have the chance, hit up his ongoing exhibition (showing until October 1, 2016) “Not the Sum of Its Parts, Just the Parts” at Joseph Gross Gallery in Chelsea.
Instagram is also a fantastic way to get caught up on the work of this young talent: https://www.instagram.com/chadwys/
Happy perusal!
Bises,
Soo
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