Daniel Crews-Chubb
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Works
Daniel Crews-Chubb
Immortal I, 2022Oil, oil bar, acrylic, ink, charcoal, spray paint, sand, coarse pumice gel, and collaged fabrics on canvas in oak frame86 5⁄8 x 66 7⁄8 in. (220 x 170 cm)BiographyMy figures pose more questions than they answer. I think they are, essentially, extensions of myself.
Daniel Crews-Chubb (b. 1984, Northampton, United Kingdom) is a painter who studied at Turps Art School and Chelsea College of Arts in London, where he continues to live and work. Crews-Chubb’s work pays homage to Abstract Expressionism, both in its gestural figuration that looks to Willem De Kooning and its playful and improvisational use of collage, which recalls the mixed-media works of Robert Rauschenberg. Other works, like Flowers (after Van Gogh), channel earlier art-historical references, and many of the artist’s paintings look all the way back to the iconography of ancient Greece and Paleolithic totems like the Venus of Willendorf.
While his work mines the annals of art history, Crews-Chubb also incorporates the language of contemporary visual culture, as in his tongue-in-cheek renderings of selfies and “belfies” (self-portraits of one’s buttocks). He selects archetypes and symbols at will to create a highly personal, idiosyncratic lexicon of human and bestial figures. The artist employs collage and impasto techniques to construct his paintings, working and reworking his surfaces to dizzying effect until they seem at once to cohere and on the verge of breaking apart. While loosely figural, his subjects function as prompts and containers for a wide-ranging and virtuosic mark-making.
Exhibitions-
Birdsong
13 July - 11 August 2023 LondonTimothy Taylor is pleased to present Birdsong, a group exhibition of works showcasing influential voices in contemporary British art, at the gallery’s London space. Spanning genres and generations, Birdsong presents an eclectic group of works by UK-based and British artists including Tomo Campbell, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Tracey Emin, Emma Fineman, Rowley Haynes, Sophie von Hellermann, Chantal Joffe, Idris Khan, Rachel Kneebone, Richard Long, Sahara Longe, Annie Morris, Richard Patterson, Andrew Pierre Hart, Paula Rego, Catherine Repko, Anne Rothenstein, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Antonia Showering, and Rachel Whiteread. This program supports The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer research centre and hospital in London.View More -
Daniel Crews-Chubb
Humanoids 24 November 2021 - 21 January 2022 LondonTimothy Taylor is delighted to announce Daniel Crews-Chubb’s (b. 1984, Northampton, UK) second solo exhibition with the gallery. Bringing together a series of new paintings and drawings, Humanoids navigates the material and mythological world the artist has explored for many years.View More -
Daniel Crews-Chubb
Cave Continuum 7 February - 14 March 2020 New YorkTimothy Taylor is pleased to present Cave Continuum, the first New York exhibition of London-based artist Daniel Crews-Chubb. Crews-Chubb (b. 1984) is known for experimental collage paintings that mine the legacies of Art Brut, Arte Povera, and Abstract Expressionism, and interrogate the symbols and archetypes of art history. The paintings in Cave Continuum anticipate a major new public artwork by Crews-Chubb commissioned by English Heritage for Wellington Arch, London, which will be unveiled in April 2020 and remain on view for a year.View More
Institutional
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Ashmolean NOW: Daniel Crews-Chubb x Flora Yukhnovich
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK 8 July 2023 – 14 January 2024The Ashmolean Museum’s renowned historical collections are the inspiration for two contemporary artists whose new works will be on display in the Museum from this summer. The two simultaneous exhibitions... -
Daniel Crews Chubb: The Consequences of Play
Wellington Arch, London, UK 30 June 2021 – 12 March 2022A new series of epic paintings inspired by London’s iconic Wellington Arch, the Duke of Wellington’s grand Apsley House and Peter Paul Rubens’ painting the Consequences of War will go... -
Daniel Crews Chubb in 45 at 45
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA 20 October 2020 – 30 January 2021Daniel Crews-Chubb features in L.A. Louver's celebratory 45 anniversary exhibition, which includes works by 45 artists. 45 at 45 celebrates L.A. Louver’s reopening of our gallery, and physical connection expressed...
News
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In Conversation | Daniel Crews-Chubb and Flora Yukhnovich
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum and online via Zoom 25 October, 2 – 3pmWith Dr Lena Fritsch, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ashmolean In this in-conversation event, internationally-acclaimed painters Flora Yukhnovich and Daniel Crews-Chubb talk about their artistic practice, their... -
Museum Acquisition | Daniel Crews-Chubb
Space K, Seoul 23 September 2022Daniel Crews-Chubb's Immortal I (2022) has been acquired by Space K in Seoul, South Korea. This non-profit museum and community centre is a major new architectural addition to the Mangok... -
Daniel Crews-Chubb Joins Timothy Taylor
22 November 2020Timothy Taylor is delighted to announce the representation of British artist Daniel Crews-Chubb. The gallery presented Crews-Chubb’s first solo exhibition in New York at Timothy Taylor, New York in February...
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