Chuck Agro

Chuck Agro's current paintings refer to his love of being around people who have no filters. People who are all nerve endings but with a personal sense of morality, which allows them an unquestioned dignity. These paintings are about them, and these paintings are for them. The paintings begin as meditations, with Agro's eyes closed and his mind open to the rhythm and beat of form. The forms suggest life: personalities, emotions, little stories, life's tensions, boredoms, releases and interactions, and his job is to coax them out. The painting develops through the push and pull between finding form and finding the story. Agro sees his caricature of form, process, and content as a response to painting and to the world he knows. The paintings have become his way of accepting, creating, and finding joy in the act of accepting. Chuck Agro knows a painting is complete when it makes him look and smile at the same time. As Agro states, "I know a painting is finished when I recognize myself in it." This will be Chuck's fourth solo show with the Earl McGrath Gallery since 1993, having exhibited in both its New York and Los Angeles locations. He has been included in over 50 group shows and has also had solo exhibitions at White Columns NY, Edward Thorp Gallery NY, and Christopher Grimes Gallery LA.