Chip Myers

8430 Shell House Road
Edisto Island, SC 29438

 

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Painting and
Pastel Drawing

11 images

Online as of April 27, 1998
Latest update November 30, 2005

About the Artist:

Chip Myers was born in New York City in 1962. He grew up mainly in South Carolina until he was in his teens, where upon he began to move around the country.

Finally, Chip settled in West Virginia for five years, and it was here that he began to seriously draw and paint.

Chip moved back to South Carolina after he began college and studied art at the University of South Carolina. Although he later studied with Randall McKissick and Ilona Royce Smithkin, he is largely self-taught.

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The Mad but Beautiful Sky
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Notes from the Blue Ridge Parkway
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The Faces and the Snake of the Apocalypse
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A Red Light for Van Gogh

A Red Light for Van Gogh
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Strange Cypresses

Strange Cypresses
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Two Faced

Two Faced
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A Night in Strangeville

A Night in Strangeville
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Golgotha

Golgotha
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Crossing Blind Alley

Crossing Blind Alley
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The Dripping Moon

The Dripping Moon
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Timmy Looked Out the Window and Saw God

Timmy Looked Out the Window and Saw God
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More about the Artist:

Chip Myers began to market his art work in 1992. Soon he was exhibited in the best galleries of his home state; and, within a few years was published in The Best of Oil Paintings - a book by Rockport Publishers. In another year, he had his solo debut at the Myung Sook Lee Gallery in New York City. He is currently represented in the United States and Mexico City commercially.

Article Published in ARTSPEAK New York,
December 1996 - January 1997

Chip Myers Unearths the Worlds Within Our Heads

by Zoltan Hegyes

Since all roads in the art world eventually lead to New York City, those of us who live here have the privilege of discovering talented artists from various parts of the country.

A particularly exciting recent discovery is the South Carolina artist, Chip Myers, whose New York solo debut can be seen at MyungSook Lee Gallery, 584 Broadway, from December 17 through January 11.

Myers, who has mainly exhibited in his home state up to this point, is a gifted neo-expressionist with a distinctive approach to figurative imagery, as well as a highly individualistic colorist, given to subdued, yet strong, hues that he combines to dynamic effect. Most of his paintings center on large heads. In some paintings, there are heads within heads or various configurations of facial features within the larger outline of a head. Elements of landscape also come into play in some paintings, freely brushed and severely simplified in a manner reminiscent of early Kandinsky and also of the late Greek artist, Aristodimos Kaldis, who was a fixture on the New York scene for many years.

Like that of Kaldis, Chip Myers' work is simultaneously primitive and sophisticated, with a disarming directness and a unique freshness that bespeaks casual authority. Myers also has qualities in common with Jim Nutt and other Chicago artists of the Hairy Who School, particularly in terms of the liberties he takes with the figure, scattering and dispersing the features of his heads to create a new variation of classic cubistic fracture. However, Myers' pictures substitute a more lyrical quality for the crassness of the Chicago painters. His heads evoke a poignant sense of humanity and, for all the plastic liberties that he takes with their individual parts, they are not at all grotesque. Rather, the anatomical dislocations activate the picture plane, while suggesting the psychological complexities to which all of us are heir.

Chip Myers is a particularly postmodern kind of painter in that he integrates certain elements of so-called "Outsider" art into the aesthetic mainstream. In this regard he shows a spiritual kinship with Jean Dubuffet, who was way ahead of his time when it came to introducing elements of "Art Brut" into a sophisticated context. Perhaps Chip Myers' relative isolation as a South Carolina artist has served him especially well, keeping his vision fresh and his inspiration direct. In any case, his paintings are refreshingly free of the self-referential, self consciousness that we see among many of his contemporaries who live closer to large urban art centers. These are not paintings about art (although one can find many valid precedents for Myers' approach); rather, they are images that explore the artist's responses to nature and the human condition, and they are all the stronger for it.

Chip Myers is a gifted artist who arrives on the New York scene with a strong, fully developed style, and it appears clear that his work is here to stay.

Article Published in ARTSPEAK New York, December 1996 - January 1997

Publications:

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1996

 

1996 - December

 

1996 - December / 1997 - January

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Gallery Showings:

2000 - March

 

1998 - April

 

1997

 

1996 - December

 

1996 - April

 

1996 - March

 

1994 - September

 

1994 - Summer

 

1994 - March

 

1993 - August

 

1992 - August

 

1992 - June

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Solo exhibitions:

1996 -December

 

1996 - November

 

1996 - March

 

1996 - January

 

1995 - October

 

1995 - Summer

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Other Shows:

1995 March and

1993 January

 

1992 - October

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Collections of Note:

Chip Myers' paintings are in the collections of Tedd Joselson, world acclaimed pianist.

and famed restaurateur Rosa Margarita Martin de Miche of Mexico City, Mexico.

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