Daniel Crews-Chubb is known for his innovative and experimental collage paintings which mine the  legacies of Art Brut, Arte Povera, and Abstract Expressionism, and interrogate symbols and  archetypes of art history. When creating a work, Crews-Chubb may throw the paint at the canvas, smear it with his hands, and then glue new canvas over certain sections and re-imagine them. Although his artworks have a feeling of movement, energy, and even disorder, they are still balanced;  the artist describes his own process as “a dance between order and chaos.” As David Pagel of the Los Angeles Times writes, “If Crews-Chubb’s paintings were billboards, they’d stop traffic … To look  closely is to see how deliberately, even carefully, each [work] is made … You don’t need to know  what they reference in order to come face to face with their beauty, which is down and dirty and so far  from pretty that you might start to think that beauty without a touch of grunge or even ugliness is not  all it’s cracked up to be.” Here, in Zombie the Acrobat, Crews-Chubb depicts a pair of zombie  acrobats similar to virtual beings which have become video game memes that can walk on tightropes  in order to inflict damage to opponents. Crews-Chubb is represented by Timothy Taylor and Roberts  Projects.