Chaz Guest’s first solo show in Paris opens at RX&SLAG

This show marks a notable moment in Chaz Guest’s career, which has unfolded across different places of work and residence. Seeing him in a solo presentation in Paris makes it possible to look at his painting as a body of work, rather than as isolated pieces.

For artists and for people who care about drawing and painting, the interest also lies in how a work is seen: how it holds a room, how it is read in relation to a gallery setting, and what it suggests about a practice shaped by movement between France and Los Angeles. Guest’s background invites attention to the way experience and geography can inform an artist’s visual language.

At RX&SLAG, Paris becomes the site of a first individual encounter with this painter’s work. Even without further details on the works shown, the value of the exhibition is already clear in the chance to see a practice presented in one place, with its own continuity and internal logic.