Melchor Zapata

Untitled

2015

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

This artwork depicts a view of a shed labelled "Dierking Lumber Co". This piece was created with a mixed technique of acrylic painting on photograms on rice paper mounted on a wood ...

This artwork depicts a marine landscape, a flat calm before sunset, with clouds hiding the sun. This piece was created with a mixed technique of acrylic painting on photograms on rice paper mounted on a wood panel. Some edges of the paper cuts are left visible. Philippe Saucourt...

Hand signed, numbered and dated in yellow felt pen. Mixed media with handmade paper, bamboo and fabric mounted on black board and framed. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. Cer...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell