Chuck Webster | Paintings 2020 | Spells: Monoprints
Hot Pan, 2020
Oil on canvas
54 x 67 inches
For Joyce Pensato, 2020
Oil on canvas
47 x 47 inches
Safe At Home, 2020
Oil on canvas
47 x 47 inches
Bardo Painting for George Saunders, 2020
Oil on canvas
40 x 48 inches
Spell IV, 2021
Watercolor monoprint and collage of drawings on Rives BFK
22 x 30 inches
Spell I, 2021
Watercolor monoprint and collage of drawings on Rives BFK
22 x 30 inches
Spell II, 2021
Watercolor monoprint and collage of drawings on Rives BFK
22 x 30 inches
Speed Yellow, 2020
Oil on canvas
54 x 67 inches
Spell V, 2021
Watercolor monoprint and collage of drawings on Rives BFK
22 x 30 inches
Spell VII, 2021
Watercolor monoprint and collage of drawings on Rives BFK
22 x 30 inches
Spell III, 2021
Watercolor monoprint and collage of drawings on Rives BFK
30 x 22 inches
Limited Edition Spells Tee, 2021
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Chuck Webster | Paintings 2020 | Spells: Monoprints
July 7–August 16, 2021
Opening Reception: July 7 | 6-8pm
View Paintings 2020 by Chuck Webster here.
View the monoprint series Spells by Chuck Webster here.
View Drawings 2020 by Chuck Webster here.
Planthouse is pleased to present Paintings 2020 and Spells: Monoprints, an exhibition of recent work by the artist Chuck Webster. In March of 2020, Webster’s show of collages opened and abruptly closed at the gallery. This summer’s offering returns to Webster and showcases new work all made in the last twelve months. It features five paintings, all made in lockdown, and Spells, a monoprint series, produced in collaboration with Jungle Press just as New York City reopened from the COVID-19 pandemic. The show is on view from July 7-August 16, 2021.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The paintings here were all made in 2020, when I arrived back at my studio after three months in my apartment in Ridgewood, Queens. Before the lockdown, I had been teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. After 8 hours of class, I’d catch the train and draw all the way home, hundreds of ink drawings on small pieces of antique paper. The forms in these paintings came from that drawing practice.
On March 10, I took home a massive pile of paper and drawing materials, not knowing what would happen. The next three months were stressful, strange, challenging, scary, sad. We sourced PPE, worried, cleaned groceries, baked, gardened, and found ways to get through along with everyone else. My routine was making marks with pastel, crayon gouache and paint. My home studio table piled up with drawing after drawing. I could not stop working. The garden became a gallery.
I came back to the studio in July. These paintings come from that time. They are havens, hearths, ways to be in a safe place in the middle of chaos.
CHUCK WEBSTER
Webster is a recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a 2018 National Academy Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
His work has been the focus of numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, ACME Gallery and in Los Angles, and Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis. Recent one-man exhibitions of Webster’s work include shows at Evergold Projects in San Francisco, Patrick De Brock Gallery in Knokke, Belgium, and Planthouse, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York City.
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