2024
Zack Lobdell: Ethos Exhibit at the Hyde
The Hyde Collection
161 Warren St, Glens Falls, NY 12801
https://www.hydecollection.org/exhibitions/
OCT 5, 2024 - JAN 5, 2025
Zack Lobdell: Ethos
Zack Lobdell (b. 1977) creates outsize, high-energy abstract paintings that merge street art, expressionism, and the chance-based creative practices of Surrealism. Painting from a place where hope and critical awareness collide, Lobdell is prolific beyond compare, creating densely packed paintings that appear at first loose and freeform, then give way to minute, linear details. Gestural explosions become, in turn, regimented and systematized. Dynamic swaths of color are punctuated by a mysterious cuneiform, architectonic configurations, and the occasional cartoon-like animal. Canvases radiating vibrant yellows and pinks are incongruously dystopic.
Lobdell began as a Photorealist painter, then shifted to abstraction early in his career. He favors monumental canvases whose scale harkens to murals, graffiti, and the Abstract Expressionists. Lobdells rich, active surfaces speak less of his tools and techniques than of the intensity of his physical enterpriseand of the act of painting as both producing and responding to a shared cultural ethos.
Ethos surveys Zack Lobdells work from the past three years, including a twenty-foot painting titled The Hustlean enthralling cityscape that encapsulates Lobdells strangely dark but exuberant pictorial vision.
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Art