JAMES CHRONISTER Hygge (sf_m_2/20), 2020 oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches More information and images at https://www.eliridgway.com/james-chronister James Chronister (b. 1978) earned his MFA in 2004 from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco where he received the Richard K Price Painting Award. In 2010 Chronister was nominated for the SECA Award by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 he was awarded the Artist-In-Residence at the Lux Art Institute which was accompanied by a survey of his work from the years 2009-2013. “I am interested in the feeling of listening to a walkman in the woods behind my parents’ home, looking at the mountains through my bedroom window at night as a child, playing my father’s vinyl records and burning incense, driving in the middle of a Montana winter, riding a train through rural villages and countryside during a German summer, playing Dungeons and Dragons, reading Lord of the Rings, and watching Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same. Within painting, I find a different, imagined and bruised reality.”