••••••••••Chad Sorg chadsorg@gmail.com 775-287-9559

••••••••••artistic vision

As an artist, I endeavor to standardize or replicate my personal vision–syle, join together the body of work, the look, the feel, the touch, the style; but ten years later, I'm still saying this: I hope that never happens to my art–standardization(?) inevitably though, it someday will or maybe has. This is true, I will one day have style and my paintings will be praised for such style, oh that style; a good Style–how very modern.

Usually, the paintings give a sense of depth; physically/optically. From sopped on oil paint, my work ranges through shiny, smooth & clear to dry, murky, scratched with crayons, sputters of varnishes and resin in combination with various mixed-in substances strewn–plaster, marble powder, bronze powder and metallics. Very left-brainy.

Sometimes found objects such as stickers, beads or collaged strips, flat forms of white melamine board are applied to the surface for a haphazard look. These objects on top sometimes contrast the painting's impression of depth, so they may float. I want to make what seems 'like' a painting or a kind of cartoon of a painting–good Replication–how very post-modern.

Rapid and impulsive painting strokes and swishes of the spray can or putty knife build up a colorful pile of stripes in color in always rapid application; Movement and bounciness abounds. Rapid, light, floating energy.

Graphite renditions of faces and figures have been drawn freehand from magazines and historical photos, fashion magazines, and from military uniformed people. The act of drawing these people can be obsessive and in contrast to the colorful painting, making them seems to stimulate my left brain. I find that the faces lead passage for the eye, quickly zipping across the surface from one person to another. Constellations of faces. This part reflects my actual life.

With both the physical application and conceptions of meaning in my work, my challenge remains, whether to cloud or to clarify.

••••••••condensed biography

Originally from Fort Wayne Indiana, Chad Sorg, 33, attended Indiana University and then Collins College in Tempe Arizona, earning an associate degree in graphic design.

Sorg has subsidized his artistic life with income from sources as diverse as airbrushing T-shirts & cars, snowplow operator for Indiana DOT, cement truck driver for one summer as well as working in a steel foundry, a high-rise window cleaner (in three states), advertising designer, B-movie box cover artist, muralist, gallery owner (twice).

"I worked at KFC for a couple days and was once a knife sharpener–oh and I worked as a scenic artist on a video game, I've also taught Flash animation at TMCC for a semester and photography at the Nevada Museum of Art School."

Sorg has created art for 9 corporate commissions locally including:
Reno Hilton Suites
Redhawk Golf Course
Great Basin Credit Union
First Independent Bank
Carson Tahoe Hospital
Carson Tahoe Cancer Center
Renown Hospital–Stremmel Gallery
Victorian Square–City Of Sparks

He's currently contracted through the Nevada Arts Council to deliver and install their Nevada Touring Initiative exhibitions statewide. He also writes arts & culture stories for Reno News & Review and others publications online and print.

Chad and his wife Amy have been married for 11 years. They've known each other since the 2nd grade–how god-damn cute!?