Chad Mars grew up in Jackson Mississippi, and attended the University of Mississippi where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting in 2004. He began working as a full time painter in 2012 and has painted out of his Studio in Ridgeland for the last decade. His work captures improvised gestures, and makes the material the subject. Mars works with large homemade squeegees, paint scrapers, taping knives, and palette knives to make a web of kaleidoscopic and ribbon like strokes that constantly shift and blend into on another.
