Alex Zecca
Alex Zecca: New Work March 20 - May 15, 2015 Gallery 16 is pleased to present its sixth solo exhibition with artist Alex Zecca. The new drawings and sculptures of Zecca’s continue the artists obsessive and precise methodology. They are time-intensive, process-oriented works made through a laborious process of accumulating steady inked lines. Each vibrant abstraction is the literal record of thousands of painstakingly rendered marks, made with only a pen and straight edge. Art critic Kenneth Baker wrote “Alex Zecca has long worked with such methodical consistency that I go to each new exhibition of his expecting to see more of the same. But he has not yet failed to surprise. You move around certain of Zecca’s new works on paper expecting flickers of iridescence, so keenly do they recall the powdery luminosity of a butterfly wing or exotic plumage.” San Francisco artist Alex Zecca’s precise, hand-drawn works marry a sense of the scientific with the art of craft. While process is at the center of his work, his thousands of steady, painstakingly inking lines ultimately reveal extravagant optical Moire patterns. Each piece is produced with a preordained number of lines and colors, melding the conceptual and the handmade. After studying at CCA, the San Francisco Art Institute and in Italy, Zecca has gone on to show his work in numerous solo exhibitions at San Francisco’s Gallery 16, and has been included alongside other masters of pattern like Yayoi Kusama and Ross Bleckner in the Crocker Art Museum’s exhibition Approaching Infinity: The Richard Green Collection of Meticulous Abstraction. “My work’s central focus continues to be the result of cumulative action and precise structure. Each drawing implements a unique algorithm. The intersecting lines of which create organic Moire forms.”
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2015 22 x 24, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 22 x 28, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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Detail, 2015 22 x 28, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 22 x 29, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 17 x 28, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 24 x 20, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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Detail, 2015 24 x 20, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 84 x 30 triptych. Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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Detail, 2015, 84 x 30 triptych. Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 29 x 29, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 29 x 23, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 54 x 27 diptych, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 22 x 12, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 33 x 21, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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Detail, 2015 33 x 21, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 34 x 26, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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Detail, 2015 34 x 26, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 30 x 30 #5, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 30 x 30 #7, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 30 x 30 #3, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 30 x 30 #6, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 37 x 28, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 26 x 26, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015 38 x 17, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 73 x 15, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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2015, 30 x 17, Pigment ink on paper, polymer medium on panel.
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Installation View, Gallery 16, San Francisco.
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2015, Wrapped Oar, Parachute cord, wooden oar.
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2015, Wrapped Bat, Parachute cord, wooden bat.
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Installation View, Gallery 16, San Francisco.
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2015, 18 23x27, Pigment ink on paper, size variable
Gallery 16 was founded by artist Griff Williams in 1994. Since then, Gallery 16 and its fine art imprint Gallery 16 Editions has produced exhibitions with over 250 artstis and published over 800 prints, artist books, and multiples with artists including Michelle Grabner, Ari Marcopoulos, Jim Goldberg, Colter Jacobsen, Bill Berkson, Harrell Fletcher, Lynn Hershman, Amy Franceschini, William Kentridge, Tucker Nichols, Libby Black, Deborah Oropallo, Jim Isermann, Graham Gillmore, Mark Grotjahn, Rebeca Bollinger, Rex Ray, Margaret Kilgallen.
Alex Zecca’s artwork is available through Gallery 16. Gallery 16 is located at 501 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Inquiries may contact Griff Williams at 415-626-7495. All images Š Alex Zecca gallery16.com