Zak Smith Reads My Mind – Part MCCXLIII
Posted in Beaux Arts, Eyecandy, Interna by Suzanne on November 27th, 2005 | BBC Wikipedia
Zak - 2,13% starving, 97,87% artist
Over the past year, monsieur Zak Smith has become my favourite Jeune Artiste Furieux – not only because his drawings and paintings are so romantically rebellious and achingly intimate, but also because it’s an enormous pleasure to get emails from him.
© Zak Smith – click images to enlarge
So far, we’ve discussed topics like sending DNA extracted from his blue/yellow/green hair to a Swiss lab to clone an army of ZakArtBots, the melancholy beauty of zits, the art of starvation & the starvation of the arts, as well as the deplorable nonexistence of squirrels in Brooklyn.
From Zak I learned that
“Pride is only useful as an antidote to shame, so keep it in a bottle and don’t let it out much.”
Recently, however, Zak started to read my mind – which I find rather uncanny:
“[...] Unless this is one of those things where you write me e-mails pretending to have a crush on me and then take my responses and make some art project out of them – I hate that.”
Damn. o_O
Anyway, you might be interested to know that my inspiring friend Zak is featured in Phaidon’s “Vitamin D – New Perspectives in Drawing” and that D.A.P. will soon release a veritable Zakofolio.
Thanks for not letting sudden fame play treacherous games with you, Zak.
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LINKS
• Official website
• Zak @ Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
• Zak’s Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrations
PUBLICATIONS
• Zak Smith – Pictures of Girls, D.A.P.
• Vitamin D – New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon
Thomas Anderson says:
>as well as the deplorable nonexistence of squirrels in Brooklyn.
you can’t be serious! Brooklyn is the squirrel capital of the world
November 27th, 2005 at 7:24 am
Juju says:
You have those nasty grey ones though?
November 28th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Suzanne says:
Yep, grey ones don’t count.
November 28th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Thomas Anderson says:
I didn’t know that rule
November 28th, 2005 at 9:43 pm