Who do you see in the SHADOWS? Find out during the new City
Gallery exhibit featuring work by artist Michael Zack, on view from Thursday,
October 31 through Sunday, November 24. Meet the artist in person during the Opening
Reception on Sunday, November 3 from 2-4PM.
Zack's
work explores the relationships and interaction of figures and how they can be
expressed in form and color in prints. The interrelationships and movement
within the panoramas are supported by a vibrant, subtle and nuanced range of
colors. Shorn of distinguishing facial features and clothing detail, his
figures become anyone and everyone, yet they are uniquely individual and
somewhat mysterious.
Do
you recognize anyone? Are they real people or imagined? Zack explains, “They
are frequently, but not always, based on people I know and have had the
opportunity to observe as they go about their daily lives. Taken out of those contexts
and rearranged into a panorama that has a narrative all its own, each composition
allows the viewer to interpret this world in his or her own way.”
Zack received his art education at The Brooklyn Museum
Art School, The Silvermine School of Art and Creative Arts Workshop. His work
has been shown at City Gallery in New Haven, The Silvermine Guild Arts Center
in New Canaan, where he is a member, The New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the
Community Gallery of the Brooklyn Museum, the Attleboro Museum in Attleboro,
MA, the Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT, the Fitchburg Art Museum,
Fitchburg, MA, The Bruce Kershner Gallery at the Fairfield Library and the
Katonah Museum among others.
The SHADOWS exhibit is free and
open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT
06511. Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday, 12 noon - 4pm. For further
information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org,
www.city-gallery.org.
