Chase Biado is a Los Angeles–based painter whose work moves between observation, memory, and invention. His paintings have long explored imagined worlds and psychologically charged environments, transforming familiar subjects through shifts in atmosphere, color, and perception. In Life on Earth, Biado’s upcoming solo exhibition at The Pit, the artist introduces a new chapter in his practice, turning his attention more directly toward lived experience and the strangeness embedded within everyday life.

Each painting in Life on Earth begins with an observed moment, a remembered place, or an ordinary scene: a figure reading a newspaper, a drive through smoke-filled air, an embrace, a solitary walk. Rendered in a restrained, often desaturated palette, these familiar situations become quietly enigmatic, hovering between portraiture and archetype, landscape and psychological space. Biado’s deliberate brushwork heightens this ambiguity, allowing a single mark to suggest a raindrop, a blur of movement, or a fleeting sensation. Through these scenes, contemporary realities—news cycles, environmental change, intimacy, isolation, and coexistence—emerge not as explicit subjects but as interconnected parts of the same human experience.