Ambiguity as Honesty - Michael Zachary

Statement: “ I create painstakingly slow, hand made cross hatch landscapes using only the four standard process colors used in 99% of commercial printing (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black or CMYK for short).

Although the language of my hand made landscape images is "digital" (i.e modular, logical, and combinatoric), what I am most interested in is what happens when that digital syntax collides with the “resolution limitations” that inevitably result from creating a cumbersome physical object by hand. Put another way, I am constantly trying (and failing) to turn my body and mind into the world’s slowest, least efficient digital image processor because the result is not a photograph but a distorted fun-house mirror that reflects our own relationship with the world back at us.” Michael Zachary

BIO:  
Born in New Hampshire, and a long time Boston artist, I’ve lived in every New England state except Vermont at some point. I maintain a studio close to the water in East Boston where I can draw and paint and also track the tides.

I have received support from The Joseph and Annie Albers Foundation, The Berkshire-Taconic Foundation’s Artist Resource Trust, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston University’s Blanche Coleman Trust, Mass MoCA's Assets for Artists Grant, and The Surdna Foundation. My work has been featured at many venues internationally including The Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, Burren College of Art (Ireland), Frappant e.V. (Germany), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston University, Wheaton College, Rhode Island College, Second Street Gallery (Virginia), Lux Eros Gallery (Los Angeles), Fountain (Brooklyn), Proof Gallery (Boston), European Gallery (Boston), Area Gallery (Boston), Shelter in Place Gallery (Boston), Cost Annex (Boston), Beacon Gallery (Boston), and Room 68 in Provincetown, MA. I am also a professor of art at Simmons University in Boston.