zack goulet photo by jim prinz — About my work:

Drawing on outsider art sensibilities, my search for balance within the 2D picture plane involves layering labor-intensive patterns, shapes, and motifs- to create abstract narratives for the viewer to mine visually.

20+ years of skateboarding inspire the aesthetics in my work by how I use texture, trial and error, vandalism, and unconventional painting techniques.

I think of painting a residual representation of how consciousness creates reality. I want my paintings to comment on the relevance of handmade objects in a digitally saturated world.

Other themes explored in my work include ideas about suppressed information, inter-dimensional communication, supersynchronicites, freedom, and the human condition.

About Zack:

Zack Goulet began taking art seriously during his last year of high school in 2005. He went on to take art classes at a community college where he met working artists who were teaching. Zack went on to receive his BFA in Painting from the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2012, and worked as a studio assistant for sculptor, Aaron Spangler.

After moving back to Chicago in 2013, Zack spent 4 years working as a studio assistant for fiber-sculptor, Nick Cave, and is currently working full-time on painting in his studio in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Zack has participated in a number of exhibitions in Chicago at the Hairpin Arts Center, ARC Gallery, Parlour & Ramp, and The Other Art Fair. His work is collected internationally as well as held in the collection of sculptor Nick Cave. In 2020 Zack was named a Saatchi Art Rising Star. Zack has been featured in New Visionary magazine, and has published NFTs for Saatchi Art, The Artling, and Artespace.

Exhibition History

Education

2012 • Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting
College of Visual Arts | Saint Paul, MN

2006 • Undergraduate Studies
McHenry County College | Crystal Lake, IL