Perry Rubenstein Gallery 23rd Street is pleased to present Amir Zaki: Spring Through Winter. Based in Los Angeles, Zaki renders southern California suburban landscapes and architecture as fantastical and impossible architectonic structures through his photographic works. Spring Through Winter presents his investigations into the entropy of architecture in a suite of photographs centered around exteriors of homes designed by Richard Neutra that have been cantilevered to impossible angles, overhead shots of swimming pools, and interior fireplaces. While committed to the depiction of the mundane and pedestrian, the work is subversive and disorienting, pushing the limits of photographic realism. Zaki's work transforms architecture into relics of an ineffectual world. The artist's interventions become sculpturally dynamic, dramatic, and engaging as a result of these modernist California homes that have been refaced and restructured due to multiple earthquakes, renovations, or redecoration.
This exhibition is Zaki's first solo exhibition in New York, although he has shown extensively in group shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York, and has also been featured in the "Art Statements" section of Art Basel Miami Beach. Zaki is a professor of photography at The University of California, Riverside.