Zach Eberly
Two Time Art Party Participant
Lines
Artist’s Website
zacheberly.com
Artist’s Statement
My work is not confined by the boundaries of color, medium, or others perception. I like to mix many styles together whether it is right, wrong or indifferent in the eyes of others.
I draw on my ever changing environment for inspiration. My subjects tend to formulate in dreamlike states that compel my creative need. I feel that the subjects I chose make strong connections to the audience in a multitude of levels. I then attempt to catch and release the viewer’s current state striking the person in such a way it accesses or evokes emotion. I strive to send them away driven in the same way I am when creating the piece.
I find the erratic and calculated movements I use to create an image addictive. I create and destroy pieces furiously until I get results which satisfy my compulsion. I have always been drawn towards creating artwork and I believe that even death will not be end for that creativity.
About the Artist
Zach Eberly (°1979, Cleveland Ohio, United States) makes paintings and mixed media artworks. With a conceptual approach, Eberly makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. The work tries to express this with the help of physics and technology, but not by telling a story or creating a metaphor.
His paintings are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in painting. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, he focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His works are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. Zach Eberly currently lives and works in Cleveland.
“As an artist I strive to get involved with anything outside the “norm”, back to basics, gritty, raw, or whatever adjective you prefer. Anne and Mark’s Art Party allows artistic expression to be presented in a true and approachable format far from the confines where it’s so often found. The box is being cut, torn, refolded, reshaped and standing there with the knives are Anne and Mark….. I’m grateful I get to bring some tape. “