Zach Harris

Zach Harris
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.
 
Education
 
2006
  • MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
1999
  • BA, Bard College, Red Hook, NY
 
Solo Exhibitions
 
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
 
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
 
Public Collections
 
  • 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
 
Bibliography
  • 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
  • THE NEW YORK TIMES, JANUARY 30, 2009