Elephant Room Gallery is excited to present Czr Prz’s solo exhibition, “Travel Through the Ether”, opening on Friday, April 5th from 6 to 9pm. The exhibition will be up through May 11th and is a part of Expo Art After Hours on Friday, April 12th from 5 to 8pm. A Meet and Greet with the artist is also happening on Saturday, April 13th from 3 to 5pm. Elephant Room Gallery is located at 704 S Wabash Ave. in the South Loop Neighborhood of Chicago. More information can be found on the gallery’s website: www.elephantroomgallery.com.

“Travel Through the Ether” features brand new works by Chicago-Based artist Czr Prz that take the viewer on a journey through a vibrant world of cultural lore and folktales told in a modern language. Incorporating both traditional paintings and sculptures using modern production, Czr has elevated his story-telling craft into a visually stimulating experience complete with high color contrast layers of acrylic, plexiglass and paint. Using digital formats and laser cutting machinery, the resulting works include fully dimensional portraits, birds, flowers, patterns and symmetry. Czr has created an ethereal, alternate universe that balances nature and technology, the physical and the metaphysical, and science and mysticism.

With an impressive background in creating public artwork and murals all over the world, Czr Prz is inspired by his childhood upbringing and artists both past and present whose work he admires. “Even the media I work in hails from a significant place in my heart. Public artwork proves a natural fit – like most kids, I used to tag. If you didn’t then you definitely knew someone who did where I lived. Art on the streets has definitely altered my life. Canvases call out to the storied Masters who took up this pursuit before me. Sculptural fabrication harkens back to the working class roots that raised me, proving heavy machinery can still produce delicately detailed results.” – Czr Prz

Czr Prz is an urban contemporary artist working in sculptural fabrication, large-scale aerosol murals, and all manner of design. Born and raised in working class Chicago, Prz’s 20 year creative career has spanned America all the way to Europe. Across their multifaceted media, his artworks tell stories in the folklorico tradition instilled by his Latino-Caribbean upbringing. Prz recovered from Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2015, a battle that halted his trips abroad, resuming his creative practice without missing a beat. In the past year alone, Prz has painted murals for CATAN in Albany Park and Paint Memphis Fest in Tennessee. Prz’s fine art fabrication has shown at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco and Epiphany Center for the Arts, where he was the curator behind Idol Hands, a group show centered around craft in 2022. Prz is also one half of Ava Grey, a creative firm based in Chicago’s South Side.

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