Chad Murray

Chad Murray's paintings express a meditation on the unrelenting awe of nature; their confluence offering a graduated proof of concept. Murray's primary conceptual mission is to evoke and explore the sublime using only the most rudimentary tools of the painter. What began as a small tornado painting, morphed into a pair of waterfall canvases, then mutated into an explosive yet oddly serene wildfire. Within Murray's quiver of oils, the viewer is enveloped by a consciously curated universe of nature. A world void of the human form capturing moments whose cataclysmic effects often promise to impact humankind. Beyond the absence of the human figure, it's worth noting the "position of the viewer" which, in several works, seems to almost hover out in mid-air. Murray born in 1985 in Alberta, Canada lives and works in Los Angeles, and has a BFA from The Emily Carr University of Art and Design.