“ ‘Period Rush’ is a term I just read in the book Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen that describes the feeling that re-enactors get during reenactment events. I think I’m feeling a “period rush” right now. Some kind of rush. I started making some hybrid print paintings on paper during the quarantine in the last month or two. Ass holes and bullet holes.” –Fritz Chesnut

Fritz Chesnut was born in Santa Fé, New Mexico in 1973. He received a BA (1995) from UC Santa Cruz and MFA (1997) from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey. Chesnut is known for process-driven abstract paintings. His work is made through an interplay of materials—acrylic and latex paint combined with enamel spray paint to form dynamic patterns that reference topography. Chesnut has had solo exhibitions at There-There (Los Angeles), C. Nichols project (Los Angeles), Country Club (Los Angeles and Cincinnati), CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions (San Francisco) and Bellwether Gallery (New York). His work has been seen in such venues as LAXART, Public Fiction,and Pepin-Moore in Los Angeles; White Columns and The Bronx Museum in New York, and Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, among many others.