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Digital medium has made us a little obsessed with visual clarity. Yet as we compare our megapixels, artist Chuck Staley has discovered that true clarity comes from our emotions. Using pixels rather than paints, Chuck converts his original photographs into impressionistic paintings. Drenched in color, we don't exactly know what the original images look like, but we certainly know what they feel like. In this latest installment of Curbly's Artist Profile, Mr. Staley opens up about himself and his art.

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Los Angeles is certainly an art hub. There are multiple galleries, art shows, festivals and plenty of other opportunities to peruse the work of some of the more unknown artists. The genres seem endless - pencil, oil, watercolor, sculptures, photography, mixed media. One could hardly get to see it all. But within that which is available, there are always a few artists that catch your eye. Following are five local artists whose work may just call to your senses.

Chuck Staley creates acrylic and ink-on-canvas paintings, hand-embellished on-canvas photographs and digital art. His work is full of vibrant colors depicting various sights in Los Angeles - from women shopping in Rodeo Drive to limousines driving by elegant buildings. He is also involved with the arts as a TV director and a screenwriter, but his efforts in the visual arts are making him more known throughout the world. See more of his work at ChuckStaley.com

Chuck Staley has always been an artist of one type or another. When he wasn't directing or acting in movies or writing screenplays, he was behind the TV camera directing countless hours of live television shows and music videos in Hollywood.

And then there were the six years at Television City, directing for Sixty Minutes and the CBS Evening News while writing a novel, "Murder on the Six O'Clock News," available on Amazon. And when Staley isn't directing or working on his new movie, "Southern Planter," he's in his Los Angeles studio creating the thoughtful and painterly art for which he is becoming known universally.


Says Staley: "With my artwork it's all about vivid colors. I love color -- lots of it! And somewhere along the way I quit caring about whether my art accurately depicts a person or object; my purpose is to reach the emotions of the viewer."

See Chuck's Portfolio with over 600 works at ChuckStaley.com

A British Magazine called me one day and interviewed me about how I became friends with Elvis Presley. This is that published interview.

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