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① Artwork:
Attic
In this acrylic and Flashe painting on linen, a ring of identical houses surrounding an attic scene becomes a narrative about an introspective hideout, surrounded by a group of one’s peers.
Zach Bruder’s humorous and allegorical paintings repurpose familiar motifs of animals, folklore, and architecture to find new metaphors. The artist’s inventive compositions employ classical and vernacular mythology drawn from a vast archive of source images the artist collects. Bruder’s paintings offer multiple interpretations of religious and social narratives while also responding to today’s societal and political moments.
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③ Artist:
Zach Bruder’s humorous and allegorical paintings repurpose familiar motifs—including animals, folklore, architecture and anthropomorphism—to find new metaphors in simple objects and creatures. The artist’s inventive compositions employ classical and vernacular mythology drawn from a vast archive of source images that the artist collects. Bruder’s paintings offer multiple interpretations of religious and social narratives, while responding urgently to the societal and political moment in which they were produced.
Zach Bruder was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1984. The artist received a BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.
Solo exhibitions of Bruder’s work have taken place at: Magenta Plains in New York City; Harlan Levey in Brussels, Belgium; galerie l’inlassable in Paris, France; Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, California; and La MaMa Galleria in New York City.
Group exhibitions that have shown Bruder’s work have taken place at: Peter Freeman in New York City; Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Illinois; Ratio 3 in San Francisco, California; The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn, New York; Galleri Benoni in Copenhagen, Denmark; Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri; and Magenta Plains in New York City.
Bruder has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Magenta Plains in 2023.
Bruder lives and works in New York City.
