Everyone’s Invited
Zack Nathanson
The Show
Everyone's Invited, an exhibition of 94 ceramic works, including typographic lamps, vases, pots, vessels, animals, and buildings.
Zack Nathanson is an artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
"As a designer, I've spent much of my life in the digital sphere, but I’m deeply drawn to the mechanical and the tactile — paper tooth, channel letters, vinyl on shop windows, the smell of ink. Ceramics, the union of clay and heat, gives my practice an interesting edge and an experiential, tangible place in the world. With inspirations taken from geometry and concrete brutalist buildings, these pieces have an architectural slant, drafted meticulously with blueprints, with a focus given to stability, scale, texture, and sometimes functionality. To pair an ancient art with 20th century architecture and an ever-evolving list of phrases culled from advertisements, pop-culture, as well as idioms and colloquialisms, offers a tension between the old and the new, meaning and meaninglessness, function and frivolity. This is also an excuse to enjoy words and letters for their inherent shape and form, rather than semantic weight and cultural baggage.”
Everyone's Invited, an exhibition of 94 ceramic works, including typographic lamps, vases, pots, vessels, animals, and buildings.
Zack Nathanson is an artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
"As a designer, I've spent much of my life in the digital sphere, but I’m deeply drawn to the mechanical and the tactile — paper tooth, channel letters, vinyl on shop windows, the smell of ink. Ceramics, the union of clay and heat, gives my practice an interesting edge and an experiential, tangible place in the world. With inspirations taken from geometry and concrete brutalist buildings, these pieces have an architectural slant, drafted meticulously with blueprints, with a focus given to stability, scale, texture, and sometimes functionality. To pair an ancient art with 20th century architecture and an ever-evolving list of phrases culled from advertisements, pop-culture, as well as idioms and colloquialisms, offers a tension between the old and the new, meaning and meaninglessness, function and frivolity. This is also an excuse to enjoy words and letters for their inherent shape and form, rather than semantic weight and cultural baggage.”
Zack Nathanson @downwiththebiz
Curated by Nancy Steiner
Curated by Nancy Steiner