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Geoffrey Chadsey

American painter

Geoffrey Chadsey
Born	(1967-03-23) March 23, 1967 (age 57) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	United States
Education	Harvard University, California College of the Arts

*Portrait II* by **Geoffrey Chadsey**, 2000, red and blue watercolor pencil on vellum paper, Honolulu Museum of Art

Geoffrey Chadsey (born March 23, 1967) is an American artist known for his painting and drawings, based in Brooklyn, New York.^[1] He is best known for his depictions of men, consisting of dense curving and parallel lines reminiscent of engraving to delineate imperfect bodies that often shift between genders.^[2]

Biography

Chadsey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1989, he received an AB in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University, and in 1995, an MFA in Photography and Drawing from California College of the Arts.^[1]^[3]

His conspicuously flawed bodies are often androgynous, as in Portrait II, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.^[4] The Honolulu Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are among the public collections holding work by Geoffrey Chadsey.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

Bowers, Keith, “Geoff Chadsey Exposes Private Horror in ‘shift, return’ at Electric Works”, SFWeekly, Feb. 8, 2011
Chadsey, Geoffrey, James Jensen; David A. M. Goldberg, Boys in the Band: Geoffrey Chadsey Drawings 1998-2006, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2006
Cheng, Dewitt. “This Month’s Top Exhibitions in the Western United States––Electric Works Gallery, San Francisco, California”, Huffington Post, Jan. 28, 2011
Morse, Marcia. “Geoffrey Chadsey at the Contemporary Museum”, Art in America, Nov. 2007, p. 230.

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b "Geoffrey Chadsey: Grotesk Hybrids". artvantgarde. 2012-07-04. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
^ Helfand, Glen (2011-01-03). "Geoffrey Chadsey at Electric Works Gallery". artforum.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
^ "Biography". James Harris Gallery. Archived from the original on 2017-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
^ ^a ^b "American Array". Honolulu Museum of Art. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
^ "Geoffrey Chadsey". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
^ "Our Collection, Geoffrey Chadsey, For Us By Us". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2016-06-22.