Zachary Wollard

Zachary Wollard likes to include abrupt shifts in scale, style, surface, pattern and setting within individual paintings. Instrumental to the artist’s practice is rigorous art historical research that works in tandem with a chosen theme to a body of work. The paintings contain elements of landscape, still life, figuration, abstraction, and ornamentation, resisting a single genre for a more open-ended approach formally. He is drawn to geographical and painterly locations where juxtapositions of contexts, settings, styles and symbols challenge us towards new and more complex syncretic possibilities. The paint handling is just as likely to push forward the narrative as it is to withdraw from it.

Zachary Wollard was born in 1974 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Munich, and Madrid.