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About Zachary

Baltimore City
I've turned to exploring the ways of making that are found in lower Alabama's Mardi Gras float making tradition.  The idea of a float, the carnivalesque, and the dynamics of parade all resonate with me as I watch the political circus in our country.  In recent works and installations I've found myself connecting those elements of the carnival to their counterparts in our Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches in government.  Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.
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Electron Microscopy and Astro-Physics

My abstracted paintings are based on the composition or organelles in human cells. The images, taken from electron micrograph prints, are from biopsies and most often depict kidney cells. The prints create a way to visually categorize the information in the cell. The shapes in the composition are then used to organize like patterns observed outside the studio, or in the macrocosm. Using electron micrograph compositions has allowed me to break from a representational space, while allowing me to continue melding different processes and surfaces into my work.
  • Duct of Sick Tissue in a Pathological Process
    Duct of Sick Tissue in a Pathological Process
    The textures and patterns that are used in these paintings come from my surroundings outside of the studio. The linking of similar designs found in nature or in man made structures are interesting to group. Duct of Sick Tissue in a Pathological Process is a combinations of worn textues on the house visible outside of my studio window.
  • Basement Membrane With Endophelial Cells
    Basement Membrane With Endophelial Cells
  • Basement Membrane Triptych
    Basement Membrane Triptych
  • Nucleaus with Chromatin Material
    Nucleaus with Chromatin Material
    The references for this painting were drawn from old Pennsylvania Dutch wallpaper designs that can be found in this area. My house and studio at the time was covered with their ornate patterns. Here they are stacked upon one another to mimic the topography in a slide that pictures the outer edge of a cell's nucleaus.
  • renalglomerulas.jpg
    renalglomerulas.jpg
  • Kindey Glumerula based Membrane
    Kindey Glumerula based Membrane
  • Bowman's Capsule
    Bowman's Capsule
  • Pneumocyte Type 1 & Type2
    Pneumocyte Type 1 & Type2
    First in a series of pieces that use the composition of organelles in human cells. The painting references two electron micrograph prints that demonstrate various ways of dealing with the Pneumocyte process in Pathology
  • Muscle Tissue 1
    Muscle Tissue 1
    The muscle tissue, in comparison to the kidney tissue used in the other images, is much more dense and linear in the way the fiber of the muscle weave their way through the print.
  • Untitled
    Untitled
    This most recent abstraction veers away from the microcosm of Pathology and explores some of the themes presented in astrophysics. The change in sciences have presented the macrocosm in such a way that I have been examining similarities in human interaction and the governing forces of astral bodies.
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