GALLERY INFORMATION:

My work is rooted in the moment of translation. As information moves from one form to another, it is fundamentally altered—reborn as something new. Inherently, this process is one of abstraction, perpetually engaging the present, yet defying the ability to be captured. As works of art slide back and forth between physical objects, documented images, and through various dissemination channels, the effects of mechanical, personal, and contextual translations are made visible. But this visibility, a collection of the conditions that are lost or gained, is a collapsing of the abstraction—a translation made opaque.

The opacity is further obfuscated by the lack of precision in the directional flow of the translation. Drawings come from digital renders that come from digital images of paintings that come from product templates, with compositions that evolve through in-progress uploaded images, ensuring each painting will also produce the desired source material for the future drawing. The confusion is intentional—a strategy designed to strip the works of a hierarchy of chronology. The different versions do not point to the previous or the next but instead they point towards the center, to the moment of translation.

Zg Gallery exhibits contemporary art by national, international and local emerging and mid-career artists working in all media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography and works on paper.  The gallery opened in Chicago’s River North Gallery district in February, 2002.

Zg Gallery presents approximately six exhibitions each year, most of which are solo shows focusing on the work of a single artist.  Although the style of each artist’s work varies from photo-realism to abstraction and minimalism, the intent of the gallery is to present diverse exhibitions unified by new ideas executed with fresh approaches to materials, medium, application and content.