Chase Julien is a fine artist focused on figurative painting based in Lafayette, La. Raised in the small rural village of Loreauville, he enrolled in the talent art program from early elementary through high school. Otherwise, he is a self-taught artist, inspired and influenced by the scenery of his rurual hometown, his peers, and early surrealists like Max Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico. Chase's work typically consists of portraiture and animals with a purpose of exemplifying grace, eloquence, and a degree of mystique, executed in a happy balance between realism, expressionism, and surrealism in the mediums of acrylic paint or ink drawing. Currently working as a Talent Art teacher, Chase has shown work at the Hallway,Basin Arts, Creole Gardens Bed&Breakfast New Orleans, participated in local mural projects, made album covers for The Debtors.
