Zach Harris (1976 Santa Rosa, California, USA)
Vive e lavora a Los Angeles, California, USA. I pannelli intagliati e le tele dipinte di Zach Harris svelano mondi complessi, utopici e distopici. La densità storico-artistica delle sue estetiche è inquietante, in un modo simile a quello del simbolismo di fine Ottocento. Mentre la brillante colorazione delle sue opere, ossessivamente dettagliate, richiama la qualità ornamentale altamente elaborata delle miniature persiane, le intricate cornici incise a mano o al laser evocano l’elaborata lavorazione del legno tipica delle pale d’altare cristiane.
Harris è un fervente praticante della meditazione, e la ripetizione meticolosa dei motivi dipinti o intagliati nelle sue composizioni funziona come un mantra. Allo stesso tempo, crea un gioco allucinatorio tra la materialità del rilievo e la sua illusione ottica, richiamando alla mente la vibrante risonanza radiale e la dimensione spirituale dei mandala tibetani. La sua arte sincretica suggerisce rituali senza tempo che, perduti o profetici, devono ancora essere decifrati.
Formazione
2006
- MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
1999
- BA, Bard College, Red Hook, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2026
- Metro Gnome, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL, USA.
2025
- Studio Visit, Perrotin, New York, NY, USA.
- Window Magik Pane, The Finley, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2024
- (upcoming) curated by Domenico De Chirico, ABC-ARTE ONE OF Milan
- Zach Harris: Drawings 2023, TOA Presents, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2023
- Spiral Bound, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
- Zero Hour, Perrotin, New York, NY, USA
2019
- Studies for 20/20, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018
- Sunset Strips to Soul, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2017
- Purple Cloud, Perrotin, Paris, France
2015
- Must Chill, Feuer/Mesler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013
- Echo Parked In A No Vex Cave, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Central Park In A No Vex Cave, Zach Feuer, New York, NY, USA
2009
- Requiem Reversals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Light Rain Cast No Shadow, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2007
- Pagan Dirt, Never Work Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005
- Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME, USA
2003
- Diamentina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Group Exhibitions
2025
- Infinity's Edge, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Everyday Breath, GGLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Step and Repeat, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2024
- Tessellations, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
- MINDFIELD, curated by Lawrence Rinder, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022
- Group exhibition, curated by Chris Johanson, Altman Siegal, San Francisco, CA, USA
2017
- Please fasten your seat belt as we are experiencing some turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
2015
- Unorthodox, curated by Jens Hoffman, Kelly Taxter and Daniel S. Palmer, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA
- Death Ship: Tribute to H.C. Westermann, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Deep Dark Submersion, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014
- Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2013
- Tapping the Third Realm, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012
- Made in L.A, 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- A Perfect Die, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- More and Different Flags, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
- Brian Calvin, Charles Garabedian, Zach Harris, John McAllister, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- New Age End of the World, Taxter and Spengemann Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Shape of the Problem, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
- Midnight at Malibu: a nocturnal survey of contemporary Los Angeles artists, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
- The Alchemy of Things Unknown, Leila Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Painting Comes Alive, Art Jail, New York, NY, USA
- June Gloom, Country Club Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008
- Implant, organized by The Horticultural Society of New York, The UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
- Visionaries, The Makor Institute, New York, NY, USA
2003
- Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001
- After Image, The New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Collezioni Pubbliche
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
- Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ
- Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX
Bibliografia
- Zach Harris, published by Perrotin and David Kordansky Gallery, 2017
- BLOUINARTINFO, JULY 5, 2018
- ART & DEAL, FEBRUARY 1, 2018
- VITAMIN P: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PAINTING, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
- ARTREVIEW, OCTOBER 1, 2013
- THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, JULY 3, 2013
- ARTFORUM, FEBRUARY 1, 2009
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, JANUARY 30, 2009