Geoffrey Chadsey: Heroes and Secondaries

Geoffrey Chadsey’s debut solo exhibition in Boston presents a series of nearly life-size portraits and smaller studies depicting a cast of figures wrought from the far reaches of the Internet and the artist’s imagination. Skillfully drawn on sheets of transparent Mylar using watercolor pencil and crayon, Chadsey renders and shapes his largely male subjects with the exactness of a plastic surgeon. But far from illustrating the chiseled perfection achieved by the scalpel or the gym, his figures are soft and fleshy, shown in discomfiting degrees of undress, sporting extraneous limbs, and questionable fashion choices.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.