Damian Chávez

Damian Chávez (b. 1976, USA) is a L.A. based artist whose work is primarily figurative, crafted with a modern-classical style. Inspired by the Western classical artistic legacy, the figures and portraits stand as individual likenesses but also as a psychological device - using a feminine guise allows him a creative freedom unattainable by other means. His practice is drawing-centered; signature works are nudes, portraits and allegorical subjects inhabiting a dream-like idealized world. Each piece is meticulously made by hand with the finest materials.