Today SLEA Sky Galleries is featuring artist Chuck Clip. Chuck so graciously stepped in when another artist was unable to show. He had work that he was preparing for a future showing and pulled together something amazing for us to view in a very short time.He is a multimedia artist, DJ and Second Life favorite in the arts community. He DJ’d our October-November opening party and made a gorgeous poster for the event.
His exhibit is “Ascent Into Madness”.
Chucks description of the artistic style used in this exhibit:
“My 2D work is created mostly digitally using a variety of methods, from photography, to digital painting, to compositing, and more recently, using artificial intelligence to enhance and evolve these pieces into something entirely new.”
Chucks Biography in his own words:
Hi, I’m Chuck Clip. I’m a graphic designer from NJ, USA in RL (now in TN), and here in SL I am one of a dying breed. I’m a prim sculptor. I don’t really use mesh. For me, my pieces serve a dual purpose. Aside from expressing myself in a way that is impossible for me in real life, I attempt with every piece to show what can be done with Second Life primitive objects.
I went to RIT initially for medical illustration. After setbacks with mental illness, I returned to school, graduating from duCret School of Art for graphic design. Aside from a few small shows in local galleries, mostly I freelanced to make ends meet.
As a prim sculptor, I’m largely self taught. I learned by trial and error and by going to places where the works of the old prim sculptors are still shown, examining them for hours on end, just trying to figure out what they did to achieve certain effects. I am forever indebted to the old prim sculptors, for they paved the way for people like me. It is their legacy that I try to perpetuate as prim sculpture slowly but surely becomes a lost art in SL. Second Life has provided us with this wonderful medium, and it is my hope that one day it becomes recognized again for the greatness it can achieve.
My 2D work is created mostly digitally using a variety of methods, from photography, to digital painting, to compositing, and more recently, using artificial intelligence to enhance and evolve these pieces into something entirely new.
I’m also the co-owner co-curator of Sinful Retreat and the Janus Galleries where Jewell and I strove to usher in a new era of art in Second Life while keeping an eye on the roots we came from. While those galleries are now closed, our rather large art collection is open to the public.
Chuck has shown at the following galleries, establishments, and events:
- A.R.t Galerie
- Omega Art Gallery of the Pirats Art Network
- Galeria Mexico
- The Magic Flute
- ZRM Gallery
- Aho Museum
- T.A.M.I. Art Gallery
- Esoterica Mills Art District
- Cuauhnahuac Gallery at Instituto Espanol
- Twisted Thorn Textures as Featured Artist of the Week
- Emmalena Damour’s Gallery and Photo Studio
- Loveli Art Gallery
- Primtings Museum
- Blackwater Sculpture Art Gallery
- Crescent Moon Museum
- UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
- SL8B
- Burning Life 2009
- Beehive Islands
- The Clam and Bean Coffeehouse
- Art Launch Mexico / Bellas Artes
- ART MEET YOU
- Lion’s Gate
- Aisling Gallery
- The Omni Market & Art Gallery
- International Art Exhibition at Arab Land
- Shamen Galleries
- Angel Manor
- Kelly Yap Art Gallery
- Pirats SAS Art Gallery
- Gallery of Mystic Dreams
- Twilight’s Peace Gallery
- Pop Art Lab
- Central Fire Market
- Art India Gallery
- The Rose Theatre
- Haiku Speed Build at Afar
- Studio 33
- SL9B
- Rising Stars Dance Academy
- SL12B
- SL18B
- Curator of the UWA Gratitude Show
- Curator of The Sinners & Saints Art Show
- SLEA
- Emergent Gallery
- Twisted Paradise
- SL19B
- Kondor Art Center
- Artscape Gallery Village
- Curator of Sinful Retreat, Angels Rest and The Janus Galleries.
- and of course my own gallery, Studio Chuck
