http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html Solo Show: All We Ever Wanted Is Anything, March 14th - April 18th 2009 Pages for artist: CV & Artists Statement James Chronister Now We Lustre, a solo show, May 28th - July 2nd 2011 James Chronister All We Ever Wanted Was Anything, a solo show, March 14th - April 18th 2009 Available Work by James Chronister Other Work by James Chronister Press & Interviews Reviews All We Ever Wanted Is Everything: Shotgun Review_by Jake Longstreth_4-4-09.pdf ArtSlant-In Black and White.pdf About James Chronister’s work

Chronister’s paintings are as much about the act of painting as they are about the content of his paintings. Each dot of paint is applied with a tiny brush in a painstaking process that takes about a month and a half per painting. Each canvas starts blank and is painted black and then gradually brought back to a toned white or occasionally tan background through the application of layers and layers of oil paint. This gives even what appears to be a simple white a depth and solidity not achieved by painting a true white ground. A grid is then drawn onto the ground, and the images is painted first as a checkerboard, then filled in, one square at a time, until complete. This process produces boundaries between each square in the painting and creates subtle variations when squares abut one another. There are shifts in the shade of the oil paint as is necessitated by the continuous process of trying to consistently blend the paint with medium as the painting progresses. These minute differences are barely perceived, but are none the less the crux of Chronister’s work. Chronister is not hiding his process, but is rather highlighting the breaks and jarring discontinuities that the juxtapositions in the image create. What seem like simple landscapes turn into both a gorgeous idealized scene and a challenge for the viewer to think about the process of painting as well as the illusory nature of representation. Images below are from:
All We Ever Wanted Was Anything - a solo show by James Chronister
 http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html#0 17e1052e-da3b-4171-88de-98857c768db6 http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/002.jpg?derivative=thumb http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/002.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_287_45"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Untitled (Dark Forest)<br/>oil on canvas<br/>57 x 57, 2008, SOLD</p></div></div> http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html#1 ebce461e-1813-466c-8e87-8809b56e4c7c http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/004.jpg?derivative=thumb http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/004.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_287_45"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">KR<br/>oil on canvas<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">30 x 30, 2009, SOLD</p></div></div> http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html#2 c56643db-a0b3-4dfa-b730-d765586aabd1 http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/001.jpg?derivative=thumb http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/001.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_287_45"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Untitled (Snowy Forest)<br/>oil on canvas<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">40 x 40, 2009, SOLD</p></div></div> http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html#3 fc6cc6c3-fc8d-46fd-8ab9-b36679d766be http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/003.jpg?derivative=thumb http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/003.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_287_45"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Untitled (Large Snowy Forest)<br/>oil on canvas<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">66 x 66, 2009, SOLD</p></div></div> http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html#4 302950e9-a975-448e-b1ed-15bd2a5c11ff http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/005.jpg?derivative=thumb http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/005.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_287_45"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Untitled (Fern)<br/>oil on canvas<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">57 x 57, 2008, SOLD</p></div></div> http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever.html#5 0f2ee2e4-7704-455e-9777-1eeac0b10a3a http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/IMG_4729.jpg?derivative=thumb http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/James_Chronister_All_We_Ever_files/Media/IMG_4729.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_287_45"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">MJ<br/></p><p class="Caption">oil on canvas<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">40 x 40, SOLD</p></div></div>