DALE CHISMAN
Dale Chisman is an abstract painter who has explored the possibilities of line and luminous color for forty years. Chisman identifies with mid-century artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Antoni Tapies. Rocky Mountain News art critic Mary Voelz Chandler writes [Chisman has] “created his own vocabulary of symbols, expansive works where every mark [is] just so, and just so important in the composition, and where there [is] so much going on beneath the surface of each painting. I could fall into them for hours.”

Chisman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art; the Kirkland Museum, Denver; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale; and in many private and public collections nationally.

His work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Denver Art Museum; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Chisman has had many solo and group shows in New York, Santa Fe, Seattle, San Francisco, Aspen, and Tokyo.
   

Dale Chisman, No.5 (line), 2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.