Art Brokerage specializes in the original artwork of Charles Chuck Arnoldi. B. 1946 - Artist Charles Arnoldi has become a popular California artist best known for his brightly-colored, abstract paintings that incorporate the use of wood as an expressive medium, often using tree branches and twigs. He lives in Malibu and has had considerable financial success and celebrity attention. He has lived and worked in Venice, California for many years. His most favored period is the chainsaw period. Charles Arnoldi attended the Chouinard Art Institute in the late 1960s—a dynamic era for Los Angeles artists that produced the likes of Arnoldi, Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari and Judy Chicago, to name but a few. Arnoldi’s work is represented in major international collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Norton-Simon collection, the Albright-Knox Gallery, the National Gallery of Art in Sydney, the Menil Foundation in Houston, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and many others.