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Brooklyn-based artist Chuck Webster is best known for his playful graphic compositions, combining biomorphic forms and thick outlines with bold planes of colour. Though fundamentally abstract, his paintings quiver with hints of known realities: buildings, bodies and natural phenomena shift in and out of focus within his mysterious structures. His works conjure a host of visual references: from the works of Paul Klee and Henri Matisse, to contemporary cartoons and the patterns of Navajo blankets. Despite the dense and deliberate nature of their execution, Webster’s forms are infused with a sense of otherworldly weightlessness, subtly animated by their writhing interiors. Meticulously worked and reworked over a period of six to eight months, his amoeba-like forms evolve at their own organic pace. ‘Each painting is very much its own pictorial being’, wrote the critic Roberta Smith in 2012: ‘vulnerable, rambunctious and fully inhabited.’ Webster’s works are held in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.