Chad NELSON

Chad Nelson is a printmaker mostly creating relief prints and mezzotints.  Both technical languages have clearly been chosen for their specific ability to render the brooding mood which is pervasive in his creation.  While the Norse Mythology which inspires Nelson for many of his compositions tends towards a darker atmosphere, this aspect of his prints is somehow not morbid.  The end of the day, overcast skies, or the night, are all strong actors of his narrative.  But they seem to translate a time of self-reflection, of future and past dreams, of ancestry as it links us to our own history.  Nelson is technically exacting.  He burnishes his rocked mezzotint plates with a precise sense of grayscale and contrast.  And his relief print matrixes are carved meticulously, laying line next to line with precision, which renders finely tuned and evocative dreamscapes.

Chad Nelson - Venice - mezzotint - 2014 - detail
$300

Venice

NELSON, Chad

Mezzotint on Hahnemühle wove paper.Edition of 20.Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil.

Chad Nelson - Near Grand Central - woodcut and screen print - detail
$450

Near Grand Central

NELSON, Chad

Linocut and screen print on BFK Rives tan paper.Edition of 18.Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil.Also bearing the Vinland Prints blindsta...

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