Fritz Chesnut (b.1973, Santa Fé, NM) is a Los Angeles based artist known for his highly textured and hypnotically patterned paintings. Chesnut's new work layers paint skins in a unique process, creating vibrant interference patterns. These hybrid paintings bring to mind op art, digital screens and textiles, blurring the boundaries between image and object.
Chesnut earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1995 and his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 1997. He has had solo exhibitions at AF Projects, There-There and C. Nichols Project, (Los Angeles), Country Club, (Los Angeles and Cincinnati), CULT Aimee Friberg, (San Francisco) and Bellwether Gallery, (New York). His work has been seen in such venues as La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, LAXART, Los Angeles, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, Pepin-Moore, Los Angeles, White Columns, New York, The Bronx Museum, New York, and Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, among many others.