Episode 20 of Artist & Place with Boston-based artist, Michael Zachary! Michael Zachary is workin in drawing and picture making. His work utilized the slow building up of cross hatched lines using 4 colors - CMYK. Themes explored in his work are landscape, nature, and perception. This is a great conversation celebrating a love of the slow & tactile quality of drawing through a digital and modular approach. It's a conversation about creating speed bumps in the work to slow the viewer down, and about how landscape, according to Thoreau, can be a psychic self portrait. It's a conversation about the need for a specificity of color and achieving that through his laborious and focused process. It's a conversation about seeing as improvisational and how he came to that discovery and how in many ways he's been seeking to find that feeling of a place or a moment within his work.
Michael Zachary has shown his work widely through the Northeast as well as nationally and internationally. He has received the support from the Joseph and Annie Albers Foundation, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation Artist Resource Trust, the MCC Cultural Council, the Boston University Blanche Coleman Trust, and Mass MoCAs Assets for Artists Grant to name a few.
Michael Zachary Website & Instagram
Some things discussed:
Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings
Charles Gaines
Janne Höltermann
Juan Jose Barbosa
Richard Long A Line Made By Walking
New Museum Unmonumental
Burren College of Art
Josef & Annie Albers Foundation
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