Zach La
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Artist Bio
Zach Larkin (b.2003) is an artist based in Austin, Texas. He is a B.F.A graduate in studio arts at The University of Texas at Austin. His media often branches through illustration, publication, and performance. He has exhibited work at Flatbed Press, the UT Visual Arts Center (VAC), UT Dell Medical school, ICOSA Collective, the Art Center of Corpus Christi, PrintAustin, PrintHouston, and UpFront Gallery.
Bittersweet Queer Mindscapes
As a queer artist and abuse survivor, raised in a low-income household, I create work rooted in queer bittersweetness. My work draws parallels to collective loss and disproportionality in healthcare through an exploratory study of personal experiences with grief and chronic illness. The specificity of Texan infrastructure is important, as I source imagery from neighborhoods I have lived in across San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The imagery works to invoke the sensations of spatial occlusions, unfinished construction sites, industrial catastrophes, and unreliable memories. Our bodies, cut off from access when we experience chronic illness, are like the peculiarities of our urban environments, where one often works in less than ideal conditions, under the delegation of seemingly invisible powers. Through the materiality of print, my work is found amongst decaying construction materials, or mounted upon discarded road signs. Through seemingly pasted images, spatially obfuscated, I approach my work with a stream-of-consciousness visual language, invoking unease.
