Winston Wächter Fine Art will be hosting an exhibition “Antarctica” by Brooklyn-based artist ZARIA FORMAN at the gallery’s Seattle location.The exhibition will bring together the most recent works by Zaria Forman (b. 1982, South Natick, Massachusetts), known for her photorealist paintings of the remote landscapes. Zaria studied at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy and received a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College, and has been exhibited widely across the US and her works are part of the collections of the Arkansas Art Museum and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum. She was also invited by NASA invited Zaria to join their Operation IceBridge in Antarctica and Greenland, which she did in 2016 and 2017. Among her more recent achievements, she was honored with a solo exhibition and lecture series at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and was a featured TED speaker at the Town Hall Theater in New York. Zaria’s works have appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post, and work has been featured in the set design for the Netflix series “House of Cards”, as well as in set designs for ballet performances.Zaria's drawings convey the urgency of climate change by connecting people to the beauty of remote landscapes- places she has travelled with her family as sites for her mother's fine art photography. This new series of work, inspired by a four-week residency aboard the National Geographic Explorer, documents the magnificent yet harsh landscape of Antarctica, where life struggles to exist. A site filled with majestic monoliths of ancient ice, Antarctica is in a terribly unstable state today as an effect of global warming. Zaria’s large-scale and detailed drawings capture moments in time in this rapidly changing ecosystem, making its beauty and critical existence visceral to the viewer to celebrate what is still here, and alerting mankind about what they stand to lose.The exhibition will be on view from September 9 through November 4, 2017, at Winston Wächter Fine Art, 203 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.For details, visit: www.seattle.winstonwachter.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the artworks.
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