Chelsea Best is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is an exploration of color and a study of surfaces as they relate to time, both evolving and growing richer in character as they age. Her paintings attempt to showcase, through the application of layers and texture, how time can reveal great beauty and depth in something otherwise ordinary. The observer is invited to stand close and immerse themselves in the unfolding of events that lead to an object’s outer appearance.

For Chelsea, large scale abstract paintings are the freest form of artistic expression - the bigger, the bolder, the fuller, the better. The process is as much physical as it is visual, a constant practice of discovery: of oneself and the world around them. Layers are built to be stripped away, revealing a saturated collage that marries one’s inner and outer landscapes, ever changing as they are.

Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Chelsea grew up dancing to her mother's piano and reading plays with her father when she wasn’t climbing trees or painting Pollock blobs while watching Bob Ross. Chelsea’s eventual performance career allowed her to travel to various corners of the world which then afforded her the opportunity to deepen her yoga studies in Matapalo, Costa Rica. Her wanderlust and spiritual inquisitiveness lend inspiration to her lifelong journey as an intuitive painter.

Chelsea lives in a teeny Upper West Side apartment with her husband, Rory, where she currently paints on the bedroom wall, because “where there is no space, one must carve it out for herself.”