Scott Richards Contemporary Art

SF Art Galleries - Openings & Events Event source calendar Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ CHRIS DOROSZ Person Painted People September 1 - 26, 2026 SAVE THE DATE Opening Reception for the Artist Saturday, September 12 4 - 6 PM RSVP Scott Richards Contemporary Art is pleased to present Person Painted People, a solo exhibition by Chris Dorosz. In his fourth presentation with the gallery, the Canadian artist brings together the ongoing, sculptural Stasis Series and his recurring Staple Paintings, two distinct bodies of work through which he continues investigating how personal identities are shaped and formulated by our increasingly image-driven, digitally saturated culture. Composed of meticulously applied painterly elements, Dorosz's figurative compositions emerge and dissolve depending on the viewer's vantage point. In his Stasis Series, suspended paint droplets applied to transparent rods appear to hover in space, rendering groupings of reductive, three-dimensional figures. The Staple Paintings, by contrast, are constructed with industrial staples serving as boundaries for translucent layers of poured paint, giving way to ethereal images that oscillate between physical presence and visual illusion. Together, these two bodies of work investigate the tension between direct human experience and digitally mediated representation. "My work moves between painting and sculpture, image and object, with the human figure constructed through paint while also being unsettled by it." Chris Dorosz CHRIS DOROSZ Dorosz builds his practice upon a lineage of artists who have expanded the possibilities of perception and image construction. His work echoes the optical synthesis of Georges Seurat’s pointillist paintings while also recalling the spatial dynamism of Jesus Rafael Soto’s linear assemblages, which activate space and perception through movement. The intricate visual complexity of Chuck Close’s portraits provides another point of reference, though Dorosz has developed a distinctly original visual language shaping how the image is perceived and experienced beyond the painted surface. Chris Dorosz received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, where he was awarded the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship. His work is held in prominent public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Royal Bank of Canada. He lives and works between Canada and San Francisco, where he teaches color theory at the Academy of Art University. For more information on the exhibition please contact: gallery@srcart.com PREVIEW THE EXHIBITION location provided by event source: "501 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA" ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do