ZACHARY STADEL - HEAT AND DUST, March 24 - May 12, 2007, See Line, Santa Monica


Stadel’s practice addresses the categorical boundaries between sculpture and drawing, sculpture and architectural models, and painting and printing. The works presented in Heat and Dust are part of a larger series that investigate the defining characteristics of and boundaries between painting and sculpture.

Zachary Stadel’s choice of materials are familiar: canvas, wood, paint. But the forms they take gesture toward the undefined. Stadel collects bits of dried paint, canvas from previous works and saves unused paint from the studio where he works as an artist’s assistant, and then later incorporates these materials into his work. His amorphous collections of canvas and wood are covered in painterly strokes, their mass developed through long, patient accretion. Although it may not seem like it on the surface.