ARTIST:

Amir Chasson

Duncan’s
Amir Chasson
Mat Is helping Us
Amir Chasson
Mat Is helping Us
Amir Chasson
Three Dimensional Topo Using Contor Lines
Amir Chasson
Three Dimensional Topo Using Contor Lines
Amir Chasson
Green GT
Amir Chasson
Green GT
Amir Chasson
Pie Chart 13
Amir Chasson
Pie Chart 13
Amir Chasson
Hand Drawn Topo Map
Amir Chasson
Hand Drawn Topo Map
Amir Chasson
Stripped of numerical data or titles and rendered in household paint, they become mute abstractions hovering in space. Painting levels the playing field, enabling lines of communication and sympathy to be drawn between the two: they become (as in a work like Mat is Helping Us) a kind of double portrait. Released from language – this person’s job, this graph’s meaning – Chasson’s works are celebrations of not knowing, small assertions of mystery and doubt.
No-Other
Amir Chasson
Special Purpose Pictoral Graph
Amir Chasson
Special Purpose Pictoral Graph
Amir Chasson
Amir Chasson’s paintings seem to juxtapose two different ways of understanding the world: the statistic, represented in graph form, and the individual, a close-up portrait. At first look, this combination – man against number – might stand for a straightforward social critique, or a restaging of an age-old conflict in painting itself (the figurative against the abstract). Yet it’s the act of painterly transcription, and particularly Chasson’s soft, almost tender blurring of the transitions in a human face, that complicates such an easy reading.
Filled Surface
Amir Chasson
Filled Surface
Amir Chasson
The eyes of his painted faces meet ours warily, or look away in response to scrutiny, recalling photographs taken quickly, perfunctorily – the workplace headshot, maybe, or police mugshot. Painting’s slowness transforms the image into something to be looked at, not merely a functional identifier for a laminated pass, and it does that for the graphs, too.
Special Purpose Pictoral Graph
Amir Chasson
Filled Surface
Amir Chasson
Hand Drawn Topo Map
Amir Chasson
Pie Chart 13
Amir Chasson
Green GT
Amir Chasson
Three Dimensional Topo Mapusing Contour Lines
Amir Chasson
Mat
Amir Chasson
No Other
Amir Chasson
No Other
Amir Chasson
Duncan’s Stimulus
Amir Chasson
Duncan’s Stimulus
Amir Chasson

Text by Ben Street

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