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STATEMENT
My work originates from a desire to freeze emotion, extracting the passionate component of the physical world. Black and White Infrared, the medium I’ve worked with for 50 years does something else. I’ve tried to challenge and reinterpret the medium. This film which is no longer manufactured, renders the Real world in terms of invisible light and, therefore, records a partially unseen reality. The magical and spiritual aspects of the subject are only imagined because the unseen can only be felt. The spectator is forced to stop looking and start feeling the Form. Like a ship on the open sea, my work confronts new emotional obstacles and becomes a physical adaptation to changes in my wellbeing. When the sea is calm and sunny, I’m working in black & white infrared film, when the seas get turbulent, I go back to drawing. When alone, I paint. It is solitary, so the quarantine is a soothing match and an inspiration to evoke things distant from me.The role of the creative process is to cast out uniformity, evoke the world of spirit, explore alternative world views. I search for new forms, and, a form without feeling is a failure.
BIO
Tony Zaza taught himself how to draw on rainy days in Hoboken, New Jersey when it was still a rough and tumble town of dockworkers and rowdy types, burlesque theaters and a bar on every corner. . He studied painting, photography, printmaking, and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and the New School. Analog Photographer: began working with B&W Infrared and Polaroid in 1960. Printmaker: Began working with Cyanotypes and Watercolor in 2000. Filmmaker: 1965-1985
EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS/COMMISSIONS
Commissions: SpiritScapes selected for all rooms in the new MC Hotel, Upper Montclair.
Juried;
Maryland Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD
Strokes of Genius
Elemental
Food
Digital Directions
Money,Money,Money
Group;
Maryland Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD
In the Box
The Academy Museum
Torpedo Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Movements,Moment
Visual Aids 2020, New York, NY
Artist Sunday
EDUCATION
Columbia University, M.F.A., Radio, TV, Cinema
Fairleigh Dickinson University, B.A. Fine Arts: Art, Music, Drama
New School for Social Research, Painting, Printmaking
School of Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Photography
Columbia University, Painting, Stage Craft
Marymount Manhattan, Advertising, Marketing
AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS
Invented Audio Design as a IATSE union craft
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Technical Director, Hunter College Theatre & Cinema, New York, NY
Sales Engineer, F&B/CECO of California; Alan Gordon Enterprises
Coordinator, USCC Ratings Administration, NC News Service
Library/Education Media, Newark Board of Education, Newark, NJ
Contracting Officer, Veterans Administration; Department of the Army;
General Services Administration, New York, NY
Instructor;
LA City College, Loyola Marymount University, New York, NY;
Hunter College, New York, NY; Columbia College, New York, NY
UCLA; Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA; Long Beach City College, CA
Syndicated Critic, NY ARTS, SIGNIS, VILLAGE VOICE
ARTIST'S TAGS
The Roving Eye, Creates,Infrared Photos, SunPrints.Watercolor Portraits,Color Photo Prints.