Eric Zammitt
Artwork
Exhibitions
Eric Zammitt
Optical and Pattern Paintings
Monday, October 1, 2018 - Saturday, October 27, 2018
MORE
Eric Zammitt
From The Back Room (February 2017)
Friday, February 3, 2017 - Friday, March 3, 2017
MORE
Eric Zammitt
Re-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After
Friday, October 2, 2015 - Saturday, December 12, 2015
MORE
Artist Statement
My work alludes to the dynamics of duality; the interplay of matter and energy, the spiritual and physical, emotion and intellect. It is simultaneously about the glory and drama of creation, and the intellectual fascination with its parts and how they relate to create a whole.
One of the ways I find of expressing this interplay is by compounding complexes of patterned color into synergistic wholes. Color and pattern are so primal to our history and survival that I think they touch the parts of us that are archetypal, rooted in nature, and infinitely curious. I employ abstraction and minimalism as ways to bypass the literal and go directly to metaphor, emotion, and the ineffable. At the same time, like classical music which integrates intellect and emotion, the works are based in structure, rhythm, and a form of logic.
The works are often associated with music, energy fields, quantum and string theory, weaving, land and seascape, genetics, etc. However, I don’t want to limit the viewers imagination.
I refer to the works as paintings, but they are made of tens of thousands of solid bits of colored acrylic plastic glued together, sanded and polished. They are laminated into cohesive panels through an intensive process of layering slicing, and reassembly. This process is followed by wet sanding and polishing.
To me the material is simply paint, but in solid form, and my “brushes” are the band saw, table saw, and glue.
Gallery Statement / Profile
Material Distillation, Eric Zammitt exhibition at David Richard Gallery, includes a selection of paintings and sculptures made of acrylic plastic. More specifically, they are comprised of thousands of individual square pieces of cut acrylic plastic in various combinations and arrays that, when assembled and polished, create spectacular geometric patterns, rhythms and abstract imagery. Beyond the physicality and process of Zammitt’s paintings and sculptures, his art making practice is more about color, light and energy, not only from formal perspectives, but to evoke a sense of nature and one’s emotions and spirituality.
Eric Zammitt has had many solo exhibitions and his work included in numerous group exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Riverside, Houston, Santa Fe and Pusan, Korea. His artwork is in many private and public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA. Recently, he completed a commission of a permanent four-story window installation created for Community Redevelopment Agency with Meta Housing Corporation for the Adams/Central Mixed Use Development, Los Angeles, CA. His exhibitions have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Coagula Art Journal and THE Magazine.
CV/BIO
PERSONAL
Born: Los Angeles, CA 1960
EDUCATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 "Eric Zammitt" Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2013 "Eric Zammitt - Material Distillation" David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010 "Eric Zammitt - Acrylic Plastic Constructions" Davis and Cline GalleryAshland, OR
2008 "Eric Zammitt, "Acrylic Constructions", Scott Richards Contemporary Art
San Francisco, CA
2006 "Cabin Fever", Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 "Particles and Waves", Harris Gallery, University of
La Verne, La Verne, CA
1996 "Eric Zammitt", David Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1995 "Eric Zammitt", Pasadena City College Art Gallery
Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 20th Anniversary Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2012 "Random Acts of Time" Curated by William Moreno
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2009 "Locals Only" Curated by Mat Gleason, Look Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
"Rolling and Ruling", Sabina Lee Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2007 "Themes and Variations", Curated by Kristina Newhouse
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2006 "Good to Go", Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"All in the Family", Curated by Molllie Barnes.
George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
"Good Clean Fun", The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005 "Connie Goldman / Eric Zammitt", Tangent Contemporary
Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 "Three Some", Three person exhibition with Tim Nolan
and Gary Symanski, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 "Merge", Curated by Jennifer Faist, Andlab, Los Angeles, CA
"Gridlock", Curated by Kristina Newhouse West L.A. College, CA
"Trans Fab" (Transcendental Fabrication) Domestic Setting, Venice, CA
"Approaching Perfection", The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Permanent installation, “Wall of Honor”, donor wall
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
"Kaleidoscope", Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk Silent Auction, Venice, CA
Korea International Art Fair, Pusan, Korea
Represented by Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Venice Art Walk Silent Auction, California Sculpture
Garden, Curator: Noel Korten, Venice, CA
1997 "Skin and Bone", L.A. Municipal Art Gallery,
Barnsdall Art Park, Curator: Noel Korten, Los Angeles, CA
1996 "New Structuralists", Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA
"On and Off the Wall", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"Structuralism", Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Norman Zammitt and Eric Zammitt", M. Anthony Gallery
Sierra Madre, CA
"Eric Zammitt/Constance Kocs", Brand Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Adams/Central Mixed Use Development, Permanent
Public Art Installation, Los Angeles, CA
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Bibi Space Gallery, Daejon, South Korea
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA
Harvey Universal Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Jarrow Formulas Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Luxe Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Art and History, Permanent collection,
Lancaster, CA
Tsuge Cafe, Tokyo, Japan
United States Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles, CA
Wallach Glass Studio, Santa Rosa, CA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Estate of Betty Asher, donated,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Sam Alexander
Carol April
Phillip Bialeck
Sheila Baird
Gerald E. Buck Collection
Tony and Cindy Canzoneri
Robert and Maureen Carlson
Rick Morris and Lisa Cliff
Norm DuPont
Jeff Ehrlich
Merrill Francis
Mark Frankel
Arnold and Homeira Goldstien
Joni Gordon
Jonathan and Nancy Glaser
David Grant
Barbara Horwitz
Dr. Todd Hutton
Anne Hutton
Ken Kaplan
Doug Kennedy
Marianne Kim, Daejon, Korea
Neil and Pamela Kramer
Shuji Kato and Kazumi Kua, Tokyo, Japan
Jeffrey Kurland
Marilyn Lasarow and Judge William Lasarow
Dr. Richard Lasarow
David Loomstein
David Nash
Gina Posalski
Jarrow Rogovin
John and Elsie Sadler
Ralph Perl and Rhoda Shapiro
Dr. Kumiko Saito, Hayama, Japan
Junko Saito, Hayama, Japan
Susan Sauvageau
George and Kay Sherman
Joannie Stern
Steve Sztopek
Brad and Cynthia Theil
Sue Tsao
DeWain Valentine
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2011 Four story permanent window installation. Community Redevelopment
Agency with Meta Housing Corporation. Adams/Central Mixed Use
Development, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Art Ltd. magazine, March 2013, Review, Eric Zammitt: "Material Distillation" at David Richard Gallery, Jon Carver
THE magazine, Sept. 2009, Article, "On the Radar, Seventeen Artists You Should Know About" Peter Frank
Coagula Art Journal, Feb. 2009 Interview, Mat Gleason
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2005, Review, “Do these small bits add to a whole?” Christopher Miles
Artscene, June 22, 2004, Review, Mat Gleason
L.A. Weekly, July 16 - 22, 2004, Art pick of the week, Peter Frank
Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2004, Review, ‘Delight is in the Details’, David Pagel
Coagula Art Journal, Nov. 2003, Review, Lucinda Michele Knapp
Los Angeles Times Magazine, Dec. 2000 ‘High Tide’ By Micheal Webb
Angeles Magazine, May 1991 ‘Queen of Cups’ By Lisbet Nilson
The Book of Cups, Garth Clark, Abbeville Press 1990. Cover and page 21
News
