Artist Statement

Chad started as a “Professional Artist” at the age of seventeen, after many years of training as a classical ballet dancer. With many of his formative years in the baroque art form of Classical Ballet, Chad has been influenced greatly by the structure, discipline and subtle intricacies inherent in art and life in general. This has provided Chad with a lens through which he enjoys juxtaposing different ideas and finding the similarities and vice-versa in the minutiae of their contrived existence.






In light of these immense influences of his training during youth, professional late teens and early 20’s, Chad loves highly formulated pieces and compositions. From Bach and Mozart to Phillip Glass the genre of classical music have been most prevalent in his life, however pop is always appreciated. Lars von Trier, Baz Luhrmann and Wes Anderson are some admired directors. Von Trier for his understated elegance, Anderson for his composition and Luhrmann for his sheer spectacularity. The television shows that strike Chad most right now are Hannible on NBC, Game of Throne on HBO and Continuum on Canadian Television. In regards to books, Game of Thrones for the realism in fantasy literature and St. Thomas Aquinas for insights into western spirituality.






The subjectivity of “art” drives it to live in the shadows of human existence/experience. Being a creator does not make one and artist nor does being an artist make one a creator. The ideas of art are, and always will be, relative to the time and place within which art is created and the viewing audience (not that art depends on an audience). The social world humanity constructed is just that, a construction. In a Kuleshov manner, Chad likes to explore constructs and induce those watching to ask questions.