Exhibition at Bruno David Gallery

CHRIS KAHLER: Hybrid Dynamic
Front Room: Dionna Raedeke: The Addition
Media Room: William Morris: 8ms

SAINT LOUIS, MO ― Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Chris Kahler’s third solo exhibition, Hybrid Dynamic, a body of work painted over the past two years. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by James Yood will accompany the exhibition.

With their dense and layered compositions of vibrant, abstracted subjects, Kahler’s new paintings explore dualities. There is a collision of intuitive and rational thought, conflict and order, evoking both the macro and micro sides of the natural world. Synthetic and natural colors collide to create a hybridization of variations of pattern and form that in turn create mutations on multiple levels. Not only biological in nature, these new works explore the fields of architecture, ecology, network theory and cybernetics. Chris Kahler is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Eastern Illinois University. He received his BFA at Ohio Wesleyan University and MFA from Northwestern University.