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Artist Statement:
With my artwork it’s all about
the colors. I love color –
lots of it! Somewhere along
the way I quit caring about
whether my pictures accurately
depict a person or object, but
find myself caught up in the
attempt to reach the emotions
of the viewer....
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Artist Exhibitions:
Starting in June see Chuck's
art at:
Gallery 444
444 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Now Playing in Old Town
Spring, Texas
Mason's on Main Street
207 Midway Street
Spring, Texas 77373
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Recent Exhibitions and Shows
Focus on Aids 12 Preview
Exhibition
Farmani Gallery
844 South Robertson ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Chuck Staley Biography:
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| Your Personal Biography |
Chuck Staley has always been an artist of one type or another. When he wasn’t working behind the camera directing the movie “Cracking Up” with actors Fred Willard and Harry Shearer, or directing music videos with Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson and Jerry Lee Lewis, he was working in films and TV shows with such stars as James Spader, Gary Busey, Diane Lane, James Woods, and Alan Rickman. Then there were the six years he spent with CBS, directing segments for Sixty Minutes and the CBS Evening News.
Lately he has been shooting hoops on the new basketball comedy “Semi-Pro” with Will Farrell and Woody Harrelson. “Those guys are HOT,” says Staley. And when Chuck isn’t involved with show business, he’s taking photographs and converting them into artwork.
There have been many fine artists over the years with the ability to pick up a paintbrush and create a work of art that looks like a photograph. Staley, on the other hand, takes a photograph and turns it into art that resembles a painting. Other artists call his work painterly.
Working on a computer, using pixels instead of paints, he painstakingly chooses and matches colors as thoughtfully as any artist painting on canvas. Staley says, “Somewhere along the way I quit caring about whether the pictures I took accurately depicted a person or object, but found myself caught up in the attempt to reach the emotions of the viewer.”
Reviewing one of Chuck’s recent shows, The Sherman Oaks Sun stated: “The artist’s color-soaked, impressionistic photographs seethe with process-induced grains that resemble a stipple effect.
“Ghost Train, a rich-hued negative image, finds an old German locomotive glowing eerily against a post-war night. French Shepherd takes on a starlit quality as a man and dog stare out at an inky sky. Three days after snapping the shot, Staley recalled, a group of shepherds told him his subject had passed away – but years later, the man and dog live on in a pastel haze of immortal light.” |
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