Chuck Agro
Human Resources
May 21- June 27, 2009

Chuck Agro is having his fifth solo exhibition with the Earl McGrath Gallery since 1993, having exhibited in both its New York and Los Angeles locations.
Chuck Agro has been included in over fifty group shows and eleven solo exhibitions; at galleries such as White Columns NY, Edward Thorp Gallery NY, Christopher Grimes Gallery LA, and Cynthia Broan Gallery NY and of course the Earl McGrath Gallery NY and LA. Agro's paintings are included in the collections of the Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, New York, the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida.
In addition, Agro's paintings have been reviewed and/or reproduced by: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Buffalo News, Arts Magazine, Artweek Magazine, BOMB Magazine, and Art in America. In 1997 The New Yorker featured his painting “TURNING AWAY” with an article and a full-page reproduction.
Statement of the artist:
"I love finding images in odd shapes, faces in stains or in a shadow on a wall. I love walking through the streets and watching people and imaging their stories. I love being around people who have no filters, who are all nerve endings. People with a personal sense of morality, which allows them dignity. People who aren’t afraid to die or fail on their own terms. People who break their numbness with intermittent screams. People too numb to scream. I make paintings about these things.
The paintings begin as automatic drawings, meditations on the rhythm, beat and energy of form. The forms suggest life: personalities, emotions, little stories, life’s tensions, boredoms, releases and interactions. My job is to coax image and vibration out of form and to build that image into something that is eventually a caricature of life, a caricature of painting, a caricature of me.
The paintings are my way of accepting and creating and finding joy in the act of accepting and creating."
Chuck Agro lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.