Zachary Stadel

Born 1978 Syracuse, New York

Lives and works in Los Angeles

All of my projects are experiments in unconventional presentations of familiar media. I view painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, etc as fields with terms that can be inverted, internally reordered, or transposed with one another to create things that are entirely new without abandoning conventional forms.

Since graduate school I've been studying the constituents of painting, and all their various intersections with those of sculpture.

Below are also some 2005 investigations of drawing and painting. These are part of a series of "shower drawings"--I took sheets of paper into the shower with me in the morning and coated them with ink or gouache and then let them dry while attached to the wall. This process led to some beautiful images and pissed off my landlord, who kept my deposit.

Other series of works are at

Education

2004
MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2001
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1996-1998
Reed College, Portland, OR

Exhibitions

2007
Zachary Stadel: Heat and Dust, See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Darkness and Light, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2006
Counterpoint, The Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA
curated by Projects Wanderlust

2005
Supersonic, L.A. Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Reconnaissance, Art Center College of Design Graduate Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes, Cartelle Gallery, Marina Del Rey, CA

2003
Four Problems Crisscrossed Suddenly, Art Center College of Design Graduate Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2002
Thaw 02, Festival of Video, Film and Digital Media, Iowa City, IA

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, Austin, TX

New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, New York, NY

2001
Deep Ellum Film Festival, Dallas, TX

Group exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

Project room, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL

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