Chad Wys‘ work concerns the examination of visuality: of images and objects, decorations and art and how the manifestations of the reproductions of these materials come to influence our everyday experiences.
Chad was born in Illinois. From an early age picture books devoted to 19th and 20th century painting were more valuable to him than toys. The Impressionists were his idols and museums were his arenas.
This naive fascination with art and its history would persists in varied degrees throughout his adolescence, contributing to a full-blown vocation in adulthood. It was during his time at University that he developed enthusiasm for contemporary art and became enamored with conceptualism and movements like Dadaism and minimalism most of all, becoming fully engrossed in postmodern thought.
Chad has developed a use for visual art, with a distinctive vocabulary suitable for not only sharing ideas but provoking serious deliberation in the viewer, as a means to finally manifest his complicated philosophical concerns about objects and images, and indeed art itself.
At its core his work is concerned with reproductions, or the inferior physical or digital iterations of various visual referents, and the objectification of visuality and experience that ensues under the authority of different users and contexts.
Through a multidisciplinary approach to media, he seeks to blur the boundaries between the material and the digital. He seeks to merge and to experiment with as many mediums as possible in an effort to engage the viewer in a continued and more elaborate consideration of visual information, objects, images, art, and decorations and how each comes to be manipulated in culture and how each impacts our experiences therein.
Images courtesy of Chad Wys
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