Anthony Zaza

My work originates from a desire to freeze emotion, extracting the passionate components of the physical world. Black and White Infrared, the medium I’ve worked with for 50 years in addition, does something else. It records the invisible. I’ve tried to challenge and reinterpret this medium. This analog 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 more imagined than perceived because the unseen can only be felt. The spectator is forced to stop looking and start feeling the Form. And, a form without feeling is a failure.
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 any quarantine is a soothing match and an inspiration to evoke things distant from me. My unfinished portraits represent work in constant transition, just like life. I am currently working on small 12” x 12” portraits of fictional or historical indigenous peoples from far o...

Columbia University School of the Arts, Fairleigh Dickinson,Fine Arts,School of Visual Arts,New School,Pratt Institute,Marymount Manhattan.

Aljira Gallery, SMI Gallery, Seven Deadly Sins, Broadway Gallery
Skyline Show Downtown Arts Club
Video Icons Knitting Factory
May I Feather Your Nest Gotham Gallery
One Stream Many Wells Nails in the Wall
Sunprints Gallery Aferro
Art Connections 9 George Segal Gallery
Viewpoints 2013 Aljira Center
Metro 29 Show CWOW
Photo Surrealism SMI Gallery
Visual Aids Sikkema Jenkins
Art Connection #10 George Segal Gallery
State of the Art 2014 SMI Gallery
Breaking Thru Tradition Pierro Gallery
Photo Show Woodstock Center
Viewpoints 2014 SMI Galleries
Friends & Neighbors Pierro Gallery, Baird Center
Center Forward 2014 Center for Fine Art Photography,Ft Collins
103rd Annual Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts
Windows SMI Galleries
Viewpoints 2014 Aljira Center for Contemporary Art
NEXUS Arts Guild of NJ
East End Arts “Playing with Perspective 2017
Long Beach Island Arts “Works on Paper” 2017
Saachi Self Expression 2017
SMI 20 x 20
2020 Exhibitions
Juried
Maryland Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD
Strokes of Genius
Elemental
Food
Digital Directions
Money,...