Chuck Scalin
Chuck Scalin was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in New York.For the past 35 years, his glass assemblages, mixed media collages, works on paper, photography and painting have been exhibited and received recognition and honors in over 250 juried, invitational, and solo exhibitions in the U.S, Europe and Asia.
The visual landscape of the urban environment, rich in surface texture and color, provides the creative impetus for his large scale photographs.
"I see beauty in randomly scavenged details; details that would normally have gone unnoticed....."
Shows
Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence is an exhibition of assemblage and photography by retired VCU art professor, Chuck Scalin. This show marks Scalin’s 25th solo exhibition in Richmond. His new body of work is based on an interest in popular culture and police procedurals as seen in film and television and Scalin invites the viewing audience to enter into the narrative he has created:… Read more
PARIS: Fragments of Urban Reality
Surface textures, architectural details and indigenous colors in the urban landscape provide the raw materials for Scalin’s photographic explorations. For some years his creative process has involved wandering through the streets, courtyards and passageways of Paris seeking out the unremarkable, the unnoticed, and even the undesirable in the form of scratches, markings and stains. These… Read more