Chelsie Sunde is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work centers on themes of friendship and personal relationships. She holds a BA in Art from Gonzaga University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her work has been shown at Powerhouse Arts and Revelation Gallery in New York City, and the Gonzaga University Art Space in Spokane, WA. She is a recipient of the Brooklyn College Wolfe-Ravenal grant to study women artists’ work in Mexico City.
The subjects of her paintings include herself, family members, and friends. She chooses effulgent colors from intimate memories and paints with them to convey mood. Crafts like crochet and quilting, passed down to her by her grandmothers, are referenced in grid-like patterning within her paintings. A more colorful rethinking of theories on the grid’s inherent sublimity, these patterns demarcate a space for meditation, but also reference personally remembered objects loaded with emotion, like the checkered tablecloth at her grandmother’s house.
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