Zak Smith’s work moves from sharply rendered poignancy to candy-colored excess. Within a general atmosphere of a dazed freneticism, he offers uncanny and excessive portraits, synthetically luminous abstractions, and somewhat narrative compilations of drawings, which he creates using a unique photo-chemical process…
Zak Smith paints portraits of himself and his friends, portraying his subjects in complicated surroundings that resemble photomontages or music video stills…