CHRIS DOROSZ: Person Painted People
CHRIS DOROSZ | Person Painted People | September 1 - 26, 2026
Scott Richards Contemporary Art is pleased to present Person Painted People, a solo exhibition of new works by Canadian American artist Chris Dorosz, on view September 1–26, 2026. Opening with a reception for the artist on Saturday, September 12th, from 4–6 pm, the exhibition showcases the artists innovative approach to figurative image-making, bringing together two distinctive bodies of work that blur conventional distinctions between painting and sculpture.
Person Painted People, Dorosz’s fourth exhibition at Scott Richards Contemporary Art, brings together two significant bodies of work: the ongoing three-dimensional Stasis series and Staple Paintings a recurring medium, both through which the artist poses existential questions about how personal identity is shaped, fragmented, and reassembled within today's image-saturated culture.
Built through meticulously applied painterly elements, Dorosz's figurative compositions emerge and dissolve depending on the viewer's vantage point. In the Stasis series, suspended paint droplets applied to transparent rods appear to hover in space, rendering groupings of reductive, three-dimensional figures. The Staple Paintings, by contrast, employ industrial staples as boundaries for translucent layers of poured paint, constructing ethereal images that oscillate between physical presence and visual illusion. Together, these two bodies of work investigate the tension between direct human experience and mediated representation.
"My work moves between painting and sculpture, image and object, with the human figure constructed through paint while also being unsettled by it," says Dorosz.
Dorosz’s practice builds upon a lineage of artists who have expanded the possibilities of perception and image construction. His work echoes the optical synthesis of Georges Seurat’s pointillist paintings while also recalling the spatial dynamism of Jesus Rafael Soto’s linear assemblages, which activate space and perception through movement. The intricate visual complexity of Chuck Close’s portraits provides another point of reference, though Dorosz has developed a distinctly original visual language shaping how the image is perceived and experienced beyond the painted surface.
Chris Dorosz received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, where he was awarded the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship. His work is held in prominent public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Royal Bank of Canada. He lives and works between Canada and San Francisco, where he teaches color theory at the Academy of Art University.
