scott chasse

The black and white printed image, as basic as it may be, can still be found abundantly in our full-color, high-resolution society. Xeroxed fliers, newsprint, industrial catalogues, vintage yearbooks, and operation manuals are some of the places where I find such images. The simplicity of only positive and negative space is what I find fascinating, and it is what I aim to employ as the primary visual focus of my paintings. My process is an experiment in restriction. My goal is to convey a minimal yet appropriate amount of information to convince the viewer. I intend for my paintings to mimic the aesthetic accomplished by repetitive production processes such as basic screen printing, stenciling, and photocopying while insisting that each piece be a one of a kind original painting maintaining obvious painterly qualities.