Details:

This painting depicts a shirtless figure with a big hairdo standing in a field, barefoot with arms open. Small flowers and weeds cover the pale yellow field alongside ochre trees, all under a purple brushy sky.
Unframed
Signed

① Artwork:

Big Hair

This painting depicts a shirtless figure with a big hairdo standing in a field, barefoot with arms open. Small flowers and weeds cover the pale yellow field alongside ochre trees, all under a purple brushy sky.

Chase Biado uses a highly saturated palette to paint fantasy beings that wander dreamlike spaces—an imagined world that combines fantasy and daily life. Biado's compositions realign the axis of beauty and ugliness, replacing the human figure with goblins and rat people that have full interior lives. The artist employs vibratory lines and rhythmic mark making to render the picture plane a psychological space.

Specs:

32 inches
40 inches

③ Artist:

Chase Biado

Chase Biado’s paintings realign beauty and ugliness, depicting an imagined world that mixes fantasy and daily life. The artist’s work combines a highly saturated palette with vibratory lines and rhythmic mark making, rendering the picture plane a psychological space. Biado’s compositions are populated by fantasy beings that wander dreamlike spaces—a place where goblins and rat people replace the human figure and have full interior lives.

BIO:

Chase Biado was born in 1985. The artist received a BFA from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in 2012. 

Biado exhibits both under his own name as well as one half of the art and design duo A History of Frogs, alongside his partner Antonia Pinter.

Solo exhibitions of Biado’s work have taken place at: Noon Projects in Los Angeles, California; Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia; and Appendix Projects Space in Portland, Oregon; among others.

Group exhibitions that have shown Biado’s work have taken place at: The Pit in Los Angeles, California; VODA in Seoul, South Korea; Marta in Los Angeles, California; Bozo Mag in Los Angeles, California; The Neutra VDL House in Los Angeles, California; Helen’s Costume in Portland, Oregon; and Lowell in Portland, Oregon; among others.

The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Chase Biado:
Big Hair, 2022
Oil on canvas
40.0 × 32.0 inches /