DVAA Member since 2024
zach zecha
WEBSITE: zach-zecha.com
About:
Zach Zecha was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (1981) Zach received his BFA in painting from University of Colorado Denver in 2013. He went on to receive an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. Zach has shown work nationally in Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Colorado, Michigan, Virginia, Florida, California, Texas and Oklahoma. He was a member of the Big Picture Artist Discussion Group in Colorado springs, Colorado, the founder of Art Imitates Life discussion group at Buexijo Gallery in Denver, CO, co-founder of Automat Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. and a former member of PiNk Noise Projects collective arts space in Philadelphia. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
Artist Statement:
My work is about labor. I support my life and practice as a tradesperson. I began working in the trades, or with my hands, or in manual labor or whatever you want to call the state of existence that one works the body till its muscles are sore, skin is rough, and energy is depleted at the young age of fourteen. For the better part of this working class life I have been a painter, Even though at times a brief respite has been through academia, or some other venture to alleviate the physical strife that can come on from this mode of money making.. Even tomorrow as I write this I am slated to apply liquid colored plastic to walls though a painters union. This job of beautifying and making whole dwellings and places of business is rewarding in its mechanical operation.
My practice tends to lean to the opposite, yet I use the materials and skills from this world to create dynamic works. The work on the surface appears chaotic. I make my assemblages or art objects that act like paintings, to break the rectangle. Everything, even the supports are used compositionally as "paint'. I spend a ridiculous amount of time sanding and then painting and sanding and painting elements in the work that are nothing more than little squares of color. The aspect of square and color is then again interrupted by a spontaneous yet not spontaneous mark. All done with care and a skill
I need this antithesis of what I do on the daily. Maybe this work is more about duality?
