Dripping Inevitability

New sculpture that employs the technique of heat-bluing to color the steel.

Also just an update. I'll be leaving california and headed east in the next couple days, I should be back in NY by the 22nd.

Be ready NY.

-Love, Zac

Record-Frames

I did a whole series of drawings which I framed with old record jackets for some interesting combinations. All are on display at Tweekin in SF.

This is just a sample, more coming soon.

Martin- Made

I think I got him!

Zacmax x Tweekin

Alright anyone who's in SF should come through to the show this friday and if you know people in SF spread the word.

Here's my little press release dealio:

Opening this friday at Tweekin Records is a show of new works by New York based Metal Sculptor, Zac Shavrick. The show will feature an array of sculptures and drawings of varying different sizes. The new work ranges from the disturbing to iconic, from a despotic monster to Don Quixote to a bust of Albert Einstein.

The work will be on display for three weeks.

Opening reception: Friday, january 15th 6.pm - 10.pm

Closing reception: Friday, January 29th 6.pm- 10.pm

Location: Tweekin Records, located at 593 Haight st. in San Francisco, CA.

Free Delerium Tremens (beer)

Making Martin

The latest sculpture I'm working is a bust of of Martin the ex-boxer, ex-Cruz-Azul-professional-soccer-goalie and Diesel Engine Mechanic. Currently doing preliminary studies and the preparatory work.

Listing (starboard!)

So I haven't written anything in a very long while and I believe I'm definitely due to give something of an update... but I'm not particularly fond of generic updates (though I have surely written my share) Lists on the other hand, I'm quite fond of. So in light of the new decade I think I'll write up a list of um... well I'll just write up a list:

List Part A. Section 1. Subsection I : A list of possible names and ideas for lists post 2009 :

-A list of things from this past year that are worth mentioning

-A list of things from this past year to remember never to do again

-A list of things from this past year that make me sound impressive

-A list of resolutions for the new year

-A list of goals for the new year

-A list of sculpture ideas for the new year

-A list that is extremely random and replete with complicated and ridiculous structuring denominations

-A list that somehow includes bits and pieces of each of the above ideas.

List Part B. section 1, with regards to subsection II (unwritten) of previous section: a nod to the past:

-Last year, 2009, I made an excursion (towards the end of the year mind you) to California

-This year, 2010, I am currently still in California

-I miss NY

-I successfully created all of the following sculptures in 2009:

1. Malevolution

2. Man going through rolling machine

3. Dragon

4. Man with gas mask smoking a cigarette and his mutated dog

5. Bust of Einstein

6-x (x being a number between 40 and 50) other sculptures of various shapes and sizes

-I read Infinite Jest and The Brothers Karamazov.

-2009 was a difficult year.

List Part B-2 Section 1: A look to the future

-Improve upon the 3 S's

I. Spanish

II.Soccer

III.Sculpting

-Drink less

-Attempt to mitigate hypocritical feelings about killing animals by eating less meat.

-Create my biggest sculpture to date

-New T-shirts (a lot of em)

-New Website

-New Hairdew

-Yagerbombs.

-Read War and Peace

Part D-1, Sub-subsection XXI as pertains to all previous sections both written and unwritten, as is dependent on which onionlike layer of time you exist within: Predictions and Musings:

-California will most likely drift into the ocean (as will Rhode Island)

-I should call Nick Wu more often

-The majority of roads in the united states will remain under construction

-The human race will narrowly evade extinction once more

-The iPhone will suck big time

-Actually the iPhone already kinda sucks

-I want to learn to cook Thai food

and even more new work

oh yes, there's more:

more new sculptures

New Work

Here's just a small sampling of some of the new work i've produced in these last two weeks (the total is 32 new ones) . I've been busy. more pictures coming soon. happy holidays.

The Recession Session

The first Recession Session show will feature all new work; ranging from busts, to figures, to animals, to creatures, to belt buckles to anything else I can come up with. Pictures coming soon. Sorry for lack of news.

So uh... yeah I'm in California

I haven't written anything in a while because the whole california scene has been very interesting... to say the least. I won't go through all the details because, well I guess things are still folding and unfolding as I go along. Vagaries aside, I was fortunate enough to spend an evening chatting with Robert Williams legendary/iconic painter and founder of Juxtapoz magazine Magazine (not to mention a personal hero of mine). Also I placed my large sculpture of the gas-masked man walking his mutated dog at a sweet spot known as The Cypress Lounge in Santa Cruz:

Yukon Ho!

Some pix from my trip cross country :

Climbing boulders in the Mojave Desert, The Raven of the Gas Station in Arizon, The Truck, and hangin with Mikey the Wags in St. Louis (not exactly in that order)

It's a dog (eat dog world)

Isn't he adorable?

New work.

Smoke Break/ A Man About a Dog.