ARTIST STATEMENT
My current work is a reflection of my own personal memories, inspiration, longing, and lust. Through cycles of repression and displacement, painting is my way of stepping through the looking glass. Relying heavily on the human figure as my subject matter, fragments of dream and memory are refracted through a filter of emotion that is central to the theme of my work.
My works concentrate on the emotional foundations of cognition. Through this process, layers of pencil and paint are transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, and recovered, until an ephemeral balance is struck between deconstruction and evolution. The figure dissolves back into the tempest abstraction from which it emerges. This end result doesn't offer resolution, or even a calculated narrative. Instead, it offers the viewer to connect the dots through their own sensation and perception.
ARTIST BIO
Chuck Tingley is a Buffalo-based artist who combines abstraction and realism in his drawings, paintings, and murals to develop distinctly contemporary works. He holds a BFA in Painting from SUNY Buffalo State, and currently maintains a studio in Buffalo's Clinton/Bailey neighborhood. Solo exhibitions of Tingley's work have been held at the Olean Public Library in Olean, NY, and El Museo Gallery and Buffalo Arts Studio in Buffalo. He has also been included in group exhibitions at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Tingley has created public art for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY and Rhinegeist Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been awarded public art commissions in Western NY, including Buffalo, Hamburg, Lewiston, Medina, and Niagara Falls. In 2016, he was honored by Arts Services Initiative of Western New York as a Finalist for the 'Artist of the Year' Spark Cultural Award, and in March of 2018 his portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appeared on the cover of Condé Nast magazine.