Blackpuffin

Zach Weber (b. 1997) was born and lives in Chicago, IL. His work is both self-referencing and an interrogation of how physical environments speak through urban language and universal geometry.
Weber’s sculptural and installation work hinges on form and freedom as a pair of communicative forces, and ultimately finds how they denote space as a medium, all its own. Weber carries specified awareness for how shape informs all else. In his practice, what is strict in form is handled freely — observing the apparent rigidity of urban banalities, arriving at an inevitable view of their idiosyncrasies and improvisations. Weber holds a BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and is pursuing an MFA from Pratt University.

Outside High and Low engages Weber’s spatial language as a choreography of encounter, where sculptural arrangements unfold like visual stanzas, guided by rhythm, proximity, and emotional resonance. Across the exhibition, Weber constructs a grammar in which structure organizes thought and material carries meaning. Through this, Weber raises a fundamental inquiry: How can process, itself a temporal and relational act, be held in suspension, indefinitely present within the form?

Outside High and Low
Zachary Weber
April 5- April 27, 2025
Curated by Ayrika Hall.

600 W Van Buren Chicago.
Opening April 5. 5 to 9pm.

Artwork: Cosmos,
(23.75 x 21 inches) 2024
Oilstick, enamel, oil, oilstick, on dropcloth.

Curated by blackpuffin and now open at POVOS gallery in Chicago - Conflicts of Freedom - featuring artists Regina Agu, Scott Vincent Cambell, Nkechi Ebubedike, Lola Ayisha, Na'ye Perez, Jamaal Peterman, Kiyomi Quinn Tayler and Modou Dieng Yacine. 🔥🔥🔥

Artist Joiri Minaya’s () “The Veil” series works are a continuation of my postcard series, started in 2015 after a Google Images search for "Dominican women." Many of the image results from that search came from online catalogues for foreign men who want to date a Dominican woman while on vacation there. "Postcards" series, makes a link between the representation of Brown and Black women in the painting tradition in tropical geographies and the way these bodies continue to be represented in contemporaneity as a continuation of the same male, white gaze.

On view this week in "Looks of Freedom III" at
, a collaboration between For
Freedoms and .co

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