Athos Zacharias

Whiz

2006

Athos Zacharias was born in Massachusetts in 1927. He arrived in New York in 1956 and joined the downtown art scene. Through the 60s, he was part of the Tenth Street Cooperative Gallery Movement, exhibiting in collective and solo shows. Zacharias also assisted many notable artists, including Willem de Kooning. His long and still-unfolding career has produced an impressive breadth of work that is, as Zacharias described, “rooted in the spatial traditions of modern, abstract painting.” Synthesizing images from pop, culture, architecture and nature, painter Athos Zacharias creates dynamic works notable for their spontaneity and characterized by Art News as "blindingly original." The one-time assistant to Willem de Kooning produced a new group of paintings that unite major ideas of this "between generational" painter. Zacharias’s work can be found in important collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; E.F. Hutton & Co., New York and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.