chase Cantwell: The PORTRAIT PROJECT
Exhibition Dates: jANUARY 31, 2023 - fEBRUARY 25, 2023
Reception: thursday, february 2, 5pM - 8pm
Panel Discussion: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2PM - 4PM
Chase Cantwell
Brenda Goodman, 2022
Chase Cantwell
Becky Yazdan, 2022
The Painting Center is pleased to present the exhibition, The Portrait Project, a series of oil paintings by Chase Cantwell. The subject matter focuses on artists within Chase’s own community. Each artist supplied a photo of themselves head to toe seated in a chair in an environment of their choosing.
The Portrait Project deals with the portrait being intimate and small rather than big and loud, and using empty wall space as a barrier from the others so you have the opportunity to bring yourself deeper into the work. When working on The Portrait Project, more specifically the piece ‘Becoming Chase’, Chase began to explore his own relationship with gender to a deeper extent.
Chase Cantwell is collected and commissioned in the US and Internationally. He resides and works in West Orange, NJ. He received a BFA from CW Post College and teaches at the Visual Art center of NJ. Cantwell is also a long-standing member of The Painting Center and has shown with Garvey Simon Gallery, NYC, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY, Artfair 14c. Cantwell has also co-curated numerous shows at The Painting Center such as The Unusuals, The Blues and One in a Year.
