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Chase Contemporary Chase Contemporary is a hybrid art business offering a wide selection of artworks by established and
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Chase Contemporary is a hybrid art business offering a wide selection of artworks by established and emerging artists and photographers.

On April 11, 1980, Tehching Hsieh began punching a factory time clock every hour for one year.The rule governed everythi...
09/01/2026

On April 11, 1980, Tehching Hsieh began punching a factory time clock every hour for one year.

The rule governed everything: sleep, illness, meals and conversations. After each punch, he photographed himself in the same position. His hair grew as thousands of images accumulated, later becoming a six-minute film.

Hsieh missed 133 punches, often because he overslept. Those failures showed the limits of the body against mechanical time.

Time Clock Piece turned one year of life into a landmark performance and left behind only the clock, time cards and film.

As a child, Cai Guo-Qiang was terrified of fire. His grandmother held his hands to light his first firecracker.He spent ...
08/31/2026

As a child, Cai Guo-Qiang was terrified of fire. His grandmother held his hands to light his first firecracker.

He spent the next 21 years trying to build a 1,650-foot ladder of fire.

His first attempt at “Sky Ladder” in 1994 was halted by wind. Subsequent launches were defeated by closed airspace and bureaucracy.

In 2015, his grandmother turned 100. Cai returned to his hometown and lifted a gunpowder-covered ladder into the sky with a massive helium balloon.

The fire climbed for 100 seconds. After two decades of setbacks, Cai transformed his earliest fear into a towering tribute to the woman who helped him face it.

Helen Frankenthaler entered woodcut in 1973 with a problem: its carved blocks produced hard edges, while her paintings d...
08/30/2026

Helen Frankenthaler entered woodcut in 1973 with a problem: its carved blocks produced hard edges, while her paintings depended on fluid color and spontaneous movement.

Instead of adapting her work to the medium, she changed the process. Frankenthaler separated blocks like puzzle pieces, layered inks and distressed the wood with sandpaper and dental tools. She called the treatment “guzzying.”

The results looked less carved and more like washes of paint. Her early experiments, including “East and Beyond” and “Savage Breeze” helped revive the American woodcut and expand what the ancient medium could achieve.

At ten years old, Andres Valencia watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold on television and responded with a paintin...
08/29/2026

At ten years old, Andres Valencia watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold on television and responded with a painting.

He called it “Invasion of Ukraine” and hoped it could become “the Guernica of today,” keeping attention on what Ukrainians were experiencing.

Chase Contemporary later partnered with the Klitschko Foundation to release 500 prints for $1,000 each. Every print sold, with the proceeds supporting the Foundation’s work in Ukraine.

Four years later, the WBC presented the original to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his meeting with world champion Terence Crawford.

Yayoi Kusama turned the patterns she experienced in childhood hallucinations into dots and nets.In New York, those marks...
08/28/2026

Yayoi Kusama turned the patterns she experienced in childhood hallucinations into dots and nets.

In New York, those marks expanded across her Infinity Net paintings. She later carried repetition onto sculptures, bodies, pumpkins and mirrored rooms, developing what she called “self-obliteration.”

What began as an uncontrollable vision became one of contemporary art’s most recognizable languages.

Yayoi Kusama passed away in Tokyo on August 14 at the age of 97. She continued painting until her final days.

Rest in peace, Yayoi Kusama.

Before galleries showed his work, New York’s subway system carried LA II’s name across the city.Ortiz painted trains bec...
08/27/2026

Before galleries showed his work, New York’s subway system carried LA II’s name across the city.

Ortiz painted trains because they traveled beyond the Lower East Side, introducing his tag to writers in neighborhoods he had never reached. Each subway car became a moving exhibition.

By the time LA II entered galleries, New York had already seen his name.

View available works by Angel Ortiz at CHASECONTEMPORARY.COM

The Connor Brothers pair vintage pulp-fiction covers with quotations from writers including Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare....
08/26/2026

The Connor Brothers pair vintage pulp-fiction covers with quotations from writers including Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare.

The words and images were never meant to meet. Once combined, they suggest the cover of a book that never existed and give an old image an entirely new story.

View available works by The Connor Brothers at CHASECONTEMPORARY.COM

Raphael Mazzucco’s travels leave more than photographs behind.While working in Africa, he printed images locally and alt...
08/25/2026

Raphael Mazzucco’s travels leave more than photographs behind.

While working in Africa, he printed images locally and altered them with shoe polish and pigments found in nearby markets. In Iceland, he collected bones and other natural fragments to bring back to his studio.

These materials are later layered with paint, collage and resin. The finished work becomes both an image of a place and an object physically shaped by it.

View available works by Raphael Mazzucco at CHASECONTEMPORARY.COM

Liu Shuishi’s figures rarely sit comfortably inside their own bodies. Heads swell, limbs stretch and faces dissolve into...
08/24/2026

Liu Shuishi’s figures rarely sit comfortably inside their own bodies. Heads swell, limbs stretch and faces dissolve into marks.

His work is shaped by Nietzsche, Kant and Freud, but the philosophy arrives through paint. Liu combines gestures from traditional Chinese calligraphy with thick, expressionistic layers of oil.

The result is not quite portraiture. It is thought, isolation and uncertainty given a body.

View available works by Liu Shuishi at chasecontemporary.com

For Kinki Texas, an exhibition does not necessarily mean a painting is finished.Works can return to his studio and remai...
08/23/2026

For Kinki Texas, an exhibition does not necessarily mean a painting is finished.

Works can return to his studio and remain there for years as he adds new figures, writing and layers of paint, then wipes or scrapes parts away. What appears spontaneous may contain several different versions of the same painting.

As long as a canvas remains within reach, Kinki Texas reserves the right to change it again.

Shop Kinki Texas works on sale at CHASECONTEMPORARY.COM

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