Zack Benson

 
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One example from a collection of 50 various cast surfaces of the ceramic studio at Otis college of art. This project was seeking to uncover external connections within the internal structure of the Otis ceramic studio. Silhouette of cat tower painted black, with cat figurine on back. Kinetic, architectural model, box, ashes, magnet, antenna, Roomba, corporeal capsule. Mixed media shaped in the form of yellow pencil, and tied in a knot. Mixed media in anvil form and mounted atop red moving dolly. Red and blue cat figure with head missing and plastic drink container with cap and straw in its place. Photomontage of a barcode for return to Amazon returns department. "Sitter" = Legal Pad * Blinds * (filter) * : Cast Plaster, Desk Form in the shape of an urn - lampshade. An investigation and experiment in recollection, testing the proximity of actual and idealized space within personal history. This space was a place the artist grew up in that was destroyed by economic conditions. Space was rendered virtually as a .obj file on blender (a free software) The designed and rendered space was made through a process that relied strictly on recalling its physical memory. This virtual model was then overlaid with the actual video of the space before the physical space was destroyed
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One example from a collection of 50 various cast surfaces of the ceramic studio at Otis college of art. This project was seeking to uncover external connections within the internal structure of the Otis ceramic studio.
Silhouette of cat tower painted black, with cat figurine on back.
Kinetic, architectural model, box, ashes, magnet, antenna, Roomba, corporeal capsule.
Mixed media shaped in the form of yellow pencil, and tied in a knot.
Mixed media in anvil form and mounted atop red moving dolly.
Red and blue cat figure with head missing and plastic drink container with cap and straw in its place.
Photomontage of a barcode for return to Amazon returns department.
"Sitter" = Legal Pad * Blinds * (filter) * : Cast Plaster, Desk
Form in the shape of an urn - lampshade.
One example from a collection of 50 various cast surfaces of the ceramic studio at Otis college of art. This project was seeking to uncover external connections within the internal structure of the Otis ceramic studio. Silhouette of cat tower painted black, with cat figurine on back. Kinetic, architectural model, box, ashes, magnet, antenna, Roomba, corporeal capsule. Mixed media shaped in the form of yellow pencil, and tied in a knot. Mixed media in anvil form and mounted atop red moving dolly. Red and blue cat figure with head missing and plastic drink container with cap and straw in its place. Photomontage of a barcode for return to Amazon returns department. "Sitter" = Legal Pad * Blinds * (filter) * : Cast Plaster, Desk Form in the shape of an urn - lampshade. An investigation and experiment in recollection, testing the proximity of actual and idealized space within personal history. This space was a place the artist grew up in that was destroyed by economic conditions. Space was rendered virtually as a .obj file on blender (a free software) The designed and rendered space was made through a process that relied strictly on recalling its physical memory. This virtual model was then overlaid with the actual video of the space before the physical space was destroyed
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Zack currently resides in Los Angeles. He is majoring in Fine Arts with an Area of Emphasis in Sculpture/New Genres and a minor in Contemporary Clay.

(Index) Ftn (detail), 2019
Ceramic installation
36 x 144 x 48 inches

Bookends, 2019
Medium-density fibreboard, ceramic
84 x 42 x 24 inches

Eternal Return (robot vacuum), 2019
Ceramic, magnet, found object
42 x 18 x 24 inches

Knot, 2018
Ceramic, acrylic 
6 x 12 x 6 inches

Mover, 2019
Plaster, found object
70 x 36 x 30 inches

Neutral Density 72, 2018
Ceramic, found object
12 x 8 x 8 inches

Return Dept. (Monolith), 2020
Print on steel and wood 
120 x 96 x 22 inches

Sitter, 2019
Plaster, found object
60 x 30 x 36 inches

URN - Lampshade, 2018
Ceramic
18 x 12 x 12 inches

Shop, 2019
Video (color, sound, rendered space)
5 minutes: 7 seconds, loop