Zach Seeger paints with an astute awareness of the allusive and formal potential of color. Contrasts of light and darkness, interior and exterior, and privacy and voyeurism define his paintings of suburban homes and their inhabitants, lending them an otherworldly “inside out” quality. Scenes of domestic life flow into the into the outside world and vice versa, as if separated by a mere membrane, and the solidity of things are undermined, rendering walls and other structural elements as precarious, indeterminate forms. Seeger’s brushwork is extremely fluid, with patches of light and color dancing around his loose, open ended compositions, seldom allowing them to resolve in a moment of stillness. Abstract forms of biomorphic imagery appear throughout Seeger’s canvases, and he uses color in place of line.
