Description
‘Unsub’ by Zach Mendoza
Artist: Zach Mendoza
Title: ‘Unsub’
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 8″ x 8″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2023
About the Artwork:
“I’ve been working on a series of “smile” portraits for the past couple of years. With various subjects, I’ve been exploring ways to decontextualize a smile from an image and to reframe it with my painting style. I’ve been thinking of different meanings that I could extract from doing this considering the subject. Lately, I’ve found myself unsubscribing from YouTubers, and from financial, marketing, art experts I used to listen to on other platforms due to guru fatigue. This painting is an amalgam of some smiles I found in this process.” – Zach Mendoza
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
After graduating with honors from Art Center College of design in 2015, Zach’s exhibition history has continued to grow throughout the United States. His work has been featured in a number of galleries and in national publications including New American Paintings and Creative Quarterly among others. He has participated in numerous group shows and a number of solo shows as well. Of his work, Zach says “It is often a mishmash of ideas, images, half-truths and afterimages that become almost ghoulish amalgams of the sum of their parts. The process of creating, destroying, and then reassembling the ruins is a regular aspect of my work.”