NAME: Jax Chachitz
BIRTH PLACE: New York
BIOGRAPHY
Jacqueline (Jax) Chachitz
Jacquie is “New York, born and raised”. In 1989 she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration with an emphasis on Painting. Her degree gave her a rich classical foundation, conceptual framework, and the skills needed to give her own unique artistic vision and voice expression.
Jacquie spent 1998- 2005 living in Germany, living in cultural centers Munich and Berlin. Experiencing the Uffizi, the Sistine Chapel, the Lenbach, the Van Gogh Museum, and countless works of the contemporary and classic masters throughout Europe was an inspiration. Traveling through the cultural landscape that produced such masters and living in the heart of what was once East Berlin proved pivotal in Jacquie’s own development. Her art shifted from the use of figurative form to that of abstract expressionism.
Intense, bold, thought provoking, raw, complex, innocent - the paint speaks for itself, using its own language. The physical reality of Ms. Chachitz’s painting is about exploring the fundamental process of creating, returning to the act of creating with no preconceived notions. Manipulating the canvas, creating and destroying figures and forms, spontaneously flowing with and against all direction - color, texture, shape, and the gestural brush strokes of each motion bring context to chaos.
Currently her work is bring featured in the 2007 edition of ArtWorld Digest.
