Zak Prekop

American(1976)

Works

Zak Prekop is a Chicago-based American painter known for his layered, process-oriented abstract works that explore the materiality of paint and the passage of time. His canvases often incorporate collaged elements, gestural marks, and translucent veils of color that build up complex visual surfaces suggesting both accumulation and erasure. Prekop has exhibited widely and is associated with a generation of painters interested in the history and language of abstraction.

American Abstract Oil on Canvas Minimalist Abstraction Green Geometric Contemporary American Artist Material Exploration Contemplative Mood Translucent Conceptual Thoughtful

"When looking at paintings, an awareness of material reality coincides with the perception of an interior, pictorial space, so a painting is looked both at and through. I work with this literally in many of my paintings where one actually sees through the semi-transparent canvas to its other side, so that looking into or through is again a process of perceiving real material, not only the kind of painterly space that has been constructed historically by conventions like the rectangle of stretcher bars or an oval framing in a portrait." Zak Prekop

2 works: (i) Reversal with Green; (ii) Unmeasured Pattern

2014

Artists in conversation