JOE CHESLA

Using aspects of order, repetition, stillness and evolution, Joe Chesla works to create experiences of unfocused awareness. Within these pieces, we experience manifestations of internal and external, cool and comforted, filtered and clarity of vision. We can find comfort in glacial speeds and spaces of great stillness. This work takes the viewer to that place of personal confrontation with beauty, stillness, isolation, and vast mindfulness... Joe Chesla focuses his aesthetic perspective on creating sculptural objects, installations and drawings that bring the viewer to a stronger connection to a specific sense of presence; the here and now, and other. His work has been exhibited internationally in Poland, France, Japan, India, China, and Taiwan, and across the United States. He has received numerous awards and grants including the Utah State Arts Grant, Utah Art Council Arts Grant, Jon Morgan Fellowship, George B and Marie Eccles Caine Fellowship, and the Regional Arts Commission..