36” x 48”
Oil On Wood Panel
2017
48” x 72”
Oil On Wood Panel
2017
ODDS AND ENDS
10/22/16 – 11/12/16
7920 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046
www.newimageartgallery.com
New Image Art is pleased to present our first solo exhibition with Los Angeles painter Marco Zamora opening Saturday, October 22nd.
With these new paintings, Zamora captures the exciting randomness of a swap meet, which he visited every week while developing the work. In generating his subject matter, Zamora diligently observed vendors, documented the activity of buying and selling, and photographed objects, even going as far as re-staging displays and arrangements in his own studio.
As a result of his process, Zamora creates a poetic play of recurring elements: objects appear and reappear, set in abstracted fields of color, representational spaces and patterned realms. Shaped and cut canvases rupture any illusionism, transforming the meticulously rendered surfaces into three-dimensional objects.
Zamora has chosen his elements carefully; a deep blue color, presented as abstracted fields, references the Tarpaulin used for shade and for display surfaces. A vivid flower pattern, lifted from an old, discarded sofa, takes on a transformed, heroic presence when presented as a painting’s center- stage subject. Figures appear in black and white, a direct reference to the photographic documentation the artist uses as his source imagery. Heavy application of white oil paint blocks out imagery; these empty, masked out spaces on the canvases allude to memory.
The artist says of his work: “Part of this is where the blocking of images and abstraction comes in. To move away from the actual object and only choose these partial reminisces of what was already forgotten. But what is the purpose of this? Is it to question, to forget, what are these things we are buying and looking for?”
In a society saturated with capitalist consumption, a constant and growing need for the latest, the newest, the updated, Zamora offers an alternative view, a poignant commentary on our cultural moment.
“I’ve spent a lot of time at swap meets. It is a desolate place but filled with life. It’s a place people gather to find things. The swap meet is a beautiful place, there is struggle, common interests, and the comfort of vendors knowing you and kicking you a deal. The honest feelings of common life.”
words by Mara De Luca
Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Wood Panel
48"x72"
2016
Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Wood Panel
Dimensions Variable
2016
Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Wood Panel
35"x40"
2016
Acrylic and Ink on Wood Panel
24"x36"
2016
Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Wood Panel
48"x60"
2016
Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Wood Panel
46"x60"
2016
Dimensions Variable
2016
Acrylic and Ink on Shaped Wood
Dimensions Variable
2015
Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel
36"x40"
2015
Screen Print, Ink, and Acrylic on Paper
18" x 24"
2015
Ink, Acrylic, and Oil on Wood Panel
48" x 60"
2015
Ink, Acrylic, Oil on Wood Panel
48" x 84"
2015
Mural In Echo Park Off of Glendale Blvd and Clifford
15ft x 20ft
Ink Oil & Paper on Wood Panel
36" x 36"
2014
Commission
Acrylic Paint and Vinyl on Wall
Dimentions Variable
2014
The Box Installation
Dimensions Variable
In conjunction with the paintings : Screen printed bed sheets based off of the mattress photographs collaged in the work.
2014
Downtown Los Angeles, in conjunction with the Hollywood installation.
Dimentions Variable
2014
Ink Oil and Paper Collage on Wood Panel
20" x 40"
2014
Ink Oil and Paper Collage on Paper
17" x 24"
2014
Ink Oil and Paper Collage on Wood Panel
22" x 40"
2014
Diptych
Ink Oil and Paper Collage on Wood Panel
41" x 114""
2014
Ink on Paper
36" x 50"
2014
Series of collage drawings. Covering drawn figures with cropped pieces of photographed beds from the street.
2014
Ink on Paper
15" x 20"
2014
Paris, France
2014
Diptych
Ink on Wood Panel
36" x 72" . 36" x 72"
2012
Ink and Oil on Wood Panel
48" x 48"
2013
Weil am Rhein, Germany
2012
A series of 4 mixed media pieces ( ink and Screen-print ) that deconstructed 4 past paintings. I removed the figure from each piece and focused solely on what was collaged.
2012
In the Field 1-5
Ink on Paper
18" x 24"
2012
Ink and Gouache on Wood Panel
48" x 48"
2012
POVevolving Gallery
For this exhibition, the artist continues his use of a mostly black and white palette depicting the urban landscape, and the often overlooked happenings of ‘everyday’ life. Marco’s paintings include an immense amount of detail that slowly reveals itself as the viewer’s eyes follow the bits of color he includes among the mostly monochromatic images. The artist’s sporadic use of color serve as a guide – or as points of interest – in an otherwise familiar urban context.
2011
