Chuck Webster | Signals, Calls, and Marches
Outfit, 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper with paper pulp painting
30 x 40 inches
Group Captain 2, 2019
Collage on handmade paper with ink and watercolor
30 x 40 inches
Storm Warnings, 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper with paper pulp painting and watercolor
58 x 39 inches
To the Next Time Zone, 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper with ink and shellac ink
30 x 40 inches
You Got Eyes (For Robert Frank), 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper with paper pulp painting
30 x 40 inches
Hypnotize, 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper
30 x 40 inches
Gargoyles, 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper with ink and shellac ink
30 x 40 inches
The Hilary Step 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper with ink and shellac ink
17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
The Academy, 2019
Collage of drawings made on handmade paper
17 1/2 x 23 inches
The Keeper, 2020
Bronze
Edition of 5
14 x 18 x 3 1/2 inches
Chuck Webster | Signals, Calls and Marches
On View: March 3 – TBD, 2020
Opening Reception: March 3, 2020 6-8pm
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Planthouse is pleased to present Signals, Calls, and Marches featuring new works on paper by Chuck Webster. The show includes collages on handmade paper, compiled within the last two years yet composed of drawings made over the last two decades of Webster’s career. Collaborations with Dieu Donne in which drawings are embedded in the wet sheet with paper pulp painting are the cornerstone of this show. In addition, Planthouse debuts a bronze sculpture published by the gallery in conjunction with the exhibition. The sculpture, fabricated by Excalibur in Brooklyn, is Webster’s first edition in bronze. Unique pieces in encaustic painted wood accompany the sculpture.
Born in Binghamton, NY, Chuck Webster received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1992 and a MFA from American University in 1996. The artist’s work can be seen in numerous public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; and The Archives of the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
In 2012, the critic Roberta Smith wrote in a New York Times review that his paintings “are also very much, if not startlingly, little big paintings: they have a strange, irrepressible scale, a largeness that exceeds their size and creates a distinctive, slightly comedic sense of intimacy … each painting is very much its own pictorial being: vulnerable, rambunctious and fully inhabited.”