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Artist-in-Residence

James Chronister

IN STUDIO

Thursday, March 14, 2013 through
Saturday, April 13, 2013

ON EXHIBIT

Thursday, March 14, 2013 through
Saturday, May 18, 2013

James Chronister

San Francisco painter James Chronister employs a labor-intensive, pointillist technique to achieve strikingly nuanced tonality and depth in his paintings. Armed with a tiny brush and guided by projected grids, he meticulously applies dots of black pigment onto a white ground until the images of snowy forest landscapes, palatial interiors and rock music legends magically emerge, reaching near-photographic veracity.

Born in Helena, MT, James graduated with a BFA from the University of Montana and then moved to San Francisco to attend California College of the Arts, where he got his MFA. He has shown in solo exhibitions, group shows and art fairs in San Francisco, New York, Miami and Minneapolis. He received a SECA nomination from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and his work is in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, CA and in numerous private collections on both the East and West Coasts.

Solo Exhibitions

2011

Now We Lustre, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010

Ceremony, Burnet Gallery at Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis, MN

2009

All We Ever Wanted Was Anything, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007

Listen Like Thieves, Bloom Studios, Oakland, CA

2006

Paintings From Pluto, Gallery of Urban Art, Emeryville, CA (w/Jake Longstreth)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

Dissonance, POVevolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Alexis Anne Mackenzie

Space: Series 1, TrueSilver Union Gallery, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Fine Arts Fair, San Francisco, CA (w/ Eleanor Harwood Gallery)

It’s Only Rock and Roll But I Like It, Truesilver Union Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Chimera: Fabrications of the Mind, Gensler, San Francisco, CA; curated by Mathew Hughes Boyko

Scope Art Fair (w/ Eleanor Harwood Gallery), New York, NY

2009

Aqua Art Fair (w/Eleanor Harwood Gallery), Miami, FL

2008

Art: Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (staff show), San Francisco, CA

2006

Trucker Hats Vs. Sideways Haircuts, On Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA; curated by Leslie Shows

Celebrity, Café Royal, San Francisco, CA; curated by Mathew Hughes Boyko

Snap, Crackle, Pop, PlaySpace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, CA (catalogue); curated by Sarrita Hunn

2004

MFA Thesis Exhibition, CCA, San Francisco, CA; curated by Mathew Higgs

50 Below, PlaySpace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, CA

Green Couch Soirée, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2003

99 Bottles, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Spaces to Fall Into, Slingshot Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Collectively, CCA, San Francisco, CA

2002

Slingshot, Alpha Galleries, CCA, San Francisco, CA

Feedback, Alpha Galleries, CCA, San Francisco, CA

ANA 31, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; juried by Gerald Peters

Montana Artists, Melanie Alvarez Gallery, Missoula, MT

2001

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, MT

ANA 30, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; juried by Peter Schjeldahl

Amnesty International Human Rights Cultural Exhibition, University Center Ballroom, Missoula, MT