Unhibited Premise - Acrylic on canvas 32'' x 44''

The influence of Canada based Chad Redl’s extensive set design work is subtly present yet unmistakable in the painter’s abstract canvases. Each colorful, dynamic, bustling composition gives the impression of watching some drama or scene evolving on a stage. Glowing pillars and strong vertical shapes often structure the canvas, turning the play of rounded, globular forms into the drama of Redl’s work. His spectacularly colorful and kinetic aesthetic suggests Cubism’s dissected forms, except that objects and figures in Redl’s acrylic paintings become bright forms constructed from innumerable circles and ovals.

Against moody backdrops of deep greens and blues, or booming yellows and reds, he stages fascinating abstract epics of rounded shapes flowing into and out of densely massed clusters. In places these evoke abstracted, sweeping landscapes, while other canvases suggest giant human forms pieced together from primordial building blocks. This aesthetic that often approaches representation yet never commits to any specific, solid form reflects Redl’s aesthetic philosophy.

Concerned with balancing contemporary, socio-political themes that will retain their visual resonance for decades, he balances the specific and the universal, the contemporary and the timeless. Just as his circular forms—the fundamental unit and element in his work—seem capable of any construction and recombination, Redl’s paintings suggest many possibilities and keep all others open.

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