Chad Robertson

born in 1965, Los Angeles, California

Western Project is proud to present a new body of work by Los Angeles artist, Chad Robertson. Come Together is a collection of paintings reflecting the cacophony of contemporary culture. Called Mash-Ups, Robertsons paintings are images of contradiction and harmony. Using photography and found imagery from the internet, Robertson weaves image over image into implied narratives. As Mash-Up is a contemporary musical reference to the blending of two or more songs, Robertson constructs in a similar fashion, creating lush cosmologies, monochromatic or in full color. Each painting is a hallucinogenic tapestry; a kind of cinematic cubism where violence and beauty are seamlessly laced together. Be it ocean swimmers viewed from underwater or snakes poised to strike, the compositions imply a universe of random actions and events. Consider Picasso or Gabriel Marquez trolling the internet, together. Yet the works are the minds mirror, suggesting parallels or the continuum of time and space; memories of the past, present and future merging in and out of view. Robertsons deft orchestration of images create new stories in motion and at once still, as though many levels of consciousness are seen simultan...

B.F.A, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles.

University of Nevada Las Vegas 1984-88

Past exhibitions:

SOLO:

"Come Together: New Paintings"
Western Project, Culver City, California
April 25-May 30, 2009

"Rise" sixspace, Culver City, California
May-June 2006

"Wherever you go, There you are", Quixote Studios, Los Angeles, California
March 2005

CAA (Creative Artists Agency) Beverly Hills, California
August, and September 2004

"Solo Exhibition", Opera, Stockholm, Sweden
Hosted by 'WE'
December 2003

"In the Moment", sixspace
November 2003

"Recent Paintings", Niva Gallery, Los Angeles, California
February 2003

"Moments in Between Moments", BASE Gallery, San Francisco, California
September 2000

"Mute and Continue", CRUZ L.A. Gallery, Venice Beach, California
October 1999

GROUP:

"We are the superlative conspiracy"
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
March 1, March 15, 2008

"Moonrakers"
Contemporary perspectives on portraiture
OkOk Gallery, Seattle, Washington
August 11, September 3, 2007

"Dear Mr. Saltz"
Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, Califo...

New Paintings
Western Project, Los Angeles, California
http://www.western-project.com/
September 10 - October 8 2011