Exhibition | Person Painted People by Chris Dorosz
Dates and Times
- Tue, Sep 1, 2026 - Sat, Sep 26, 2026
- Saturday, Sep 12, 2026 4pm - 6pm
Location
Scott Richards Contemporary Art
501 Pacific Avenue
Details
Scott Richards Contemporary Art is pleased to present Person Painted People, a solo exhibition of new works by Canadian American artist Chris Dorosz, on view September 1–26, 2026. Opening with a reception for the artist on Saturday, September 12th, from 4–6 pm, the exhibition showcases the artists innovative approach to figurative image-making, bringing together two distinctive bodies of work that blur conventional distinctions between painting and sculpture.
About the Exhibit
Person Painted People, Dorosz’s fourth exhibition at Scott Richards Contemporary Art, brings together two significant bodies of work: the ongoing three-dimensional Stasis series and Staple Paintings a recurring medium, both through which the artist poses existential questions about how personal identity is shaped, fragmented, and reassembled within today's image-saturated culture.
Built through meticulously applied painterly elements, Dorosz's figurative compositions emerge and dissolve depending on the viewer's vantage point. In the 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, employ industrial staples as boundaries for translucent layers of poured paint, constructing ethereal images that oscillate between physical presence and visual illusion. Together, these two bodies of work investigate the tension between direct human experience and mediated representation.
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