Brian Chu, "Warehouse", 2002, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 inches

Brian Chu is a well respected professor of art at the University of New Hampshire. He holds an Masters in Fine Arts from Queens College, NY. He has focused his energy on painting and teaching over the last five years and is now coming out to show this great body of work. We are pleased Professor Chu chose The Clown to bring his exciting technique to Portland and Maine at large. Texture as color means exactly what is says. Brian Chu expressed it to me the first time we met at his studio in Rollinsford, NH. "The texture of paint becomes an extension of the color". When you see his still lifes of garlic in pinks, blues, or the rich palette of browns, you know this artist knows color inside and out. His landscape reflects the light and time of place that is hard to accomplish. The texture brings a new dimension to his work that seems to capture the atmosphere and color of the experience of the place itself. Professor Chu relies upon his intense knowledge of color to create light, form, space, and composition forgoing line for texture as color.