Fritz Chesnut

Fritz Chesnut is known for his paintings inspired by cosmic phenomena, waves, oil spills, and other aquatic and geologic formations. His paintings are made with the canvas laying horizontally and as the poured paint coalesces, he intervenes by lifting and tilting the canvas. Gravity and the artist's small gestures work to create pools, ravines and fields of color. Chesnut employs an intuitive process that allows for interaction of paint based on subtle shifts in viscosity and accumulation. Bridging the environment with his psyche, Chesnut's work filters the history of modern abstraction through an immersion in a psychedelic Southern California surf culture. 


Chesnut has exhibited in New York at White Columns, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Bellwether Gallery and in Los Angeles at Country Club, Pepin Moore, Public Fiction, and the Standard Hotel among others. 


Courtesy of the artist.