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Jimmy Chin On Finding Beauty in Landscapes That Kill

His still-image work, on view now in a short-lived show in Chelsea, moves between sweeping environmental views and more abstract, calligraphy-inspired studies of ice and light.

Early this year, much of the world tuned in to watch Alex Honnold climb the Taipei 101 skyscraper live from Taiwan, but Honnold’s greatest achievement had already been captured on film long ago. Free Solo (2018) documented his effort to become the first person to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without ropes of any kind, and its shots are far more impressive than anything Netflix would ever produce.

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Those wild close-ups come courtesy of the film’s co-director Jimmy Chin. This week he was one of three artists in “What Holds Us,” a this-weekend-only group exhibition in Chelsea presenting the work of........

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