Harold
Zabady
Delancy Street
oil on linen, 40" x 60", $7,000 |
Harold
Zabady
GALLERY II
Harold Zabady identifies most closely with photorealism, an art
movement some thirty years into its development but one with historical
precedents in the origins of optics and photography. "Working
from my own photos, but not a slave to them," Zabady says,
"I feel free to alter perspective, color, shapes and positions
of objects, buildings, etcetera, in a painting or to combine elements
from sets of photographs. I often compose images which no camera
could take." According to Zabady, the possibilities are endless
and artistic developments will probably parallel progress in photography,
optics and computers. He has worked in acrylic, oils, gouache watercolor
and charcoal but concentrates on oil painting. "I work with
traditional artist brushes and do not emphasize the brushwork itself,"
says the artist. "Recently, I have started a new body of work
that focuses on the urban landscape; Delancy Street is a product
of this new direction." |
