Julie Zener Gallery

Los Angeles based artist, Chad Muska uses the visual language of Abstraction to bring the sensibility of his urban experience to his artwork. He does so with a raw modern conceptual aesthetic and media such as cement, steel, screen and wood panel. Muska’s work fuses these mediums to create a textured, linear, modern field in a variety of scale.

With an illustrious career as a Professional Skateboarder and Footwear Designer, Muska brings that freedom, movement and grit of the Skateboarding world to his accomplished art career.

Professional skateboarding career has taken him from rags to riches.  Through many years of hard work, and a portion of good luck, Muska became a staple in the 90’s re-birth of skateboarding; traveling the globe, making art and music, designing for Supra, and gaining notoriety as a popular skater in Tony Hawk’s video Games, admired by fans both domestically and internationally.

Asked about the fusion of so many facets of his life, Muska notes that at one point he thought he was escaping skateboarding through art, but then came to realize there was a direct connection between these two practices. He describes his current works as Conceptual Minimalism, using elements that are all born from skateboarding.

“Skateboarders already look at Metal, Wood and Concrete as objects of self expression, they are our canvases.”

Full of contrast, his works of Art and Sculpture are meditative yet create bolts of energy.  Curved stone meets sharp metal rods.  Dark concrete pushes against the cool brown of natural wood and stone.

Muska invites and intrigues the eye through a push and pull of height, size and intersections of these industrial and organic materials.