Jonathan Zawada (Artist) 4/6

Work

Earth Movers, Oil on linen 39.37 x 75.59 inches 100 x 192 cm




Why the Earth is Green, Oil on linen 37.8 x 59.06 inches96 x 150 cm




Very Hot Nights, Oil on linen 37.8 x 81.89 inches96 x 208 cm

Notes Vs Tokes, Oil on linen 43.31 x 43.31 inches110 x 110 cm

Flight 77, Oil on linen 59.06 x 46.06 inches149.9 x 117 cm

Bio

Jonathan Zawada is a Sydney-based commercial and fine artist, working in a variety of mediums and dealing with concepts based around representing data. In his series, "Over Time" Zawada creates graphical interpretations of comparisons of data sets, and then paints large-scale "landscapes" in response to the graphs. He attempts to transform his experiences with data into art objects depicting the data and context.


Quotations

"Painted on linen, the landscapes are a response to the “virtual” reality of digital experiences that are highlighted by the intrinsic flatness and surreal color palate. Invoking the robotics hypothesis of the “Uncanny Valley,” the works take on an android quality, a sense of reality but not quite, registering with the viewer as both familiar and dissimilar. This theme carries through to his drawings, juxtaposing the hyper-real with the conceptually abstract and underlining the temporality of human experience"

"Jonathan Zawada, Over Time." PRISM. Web. 04 Apr. 2011. .

"Zawada deftly works in the different mediums, exploring though each a response to his self-imposed query of creating visible permanence to his daily and virtual experiences. "

"Jonathan Zawada, Over Time." PRISM. Web. 04 Apr. 2011. .

Relates

Jonathan Zawada's work, like mine, is made out of a reaction to experiences with a virtual world, filled with virtual data, based on real life. My work is now more of an illustration of measurements and measuring/storing devices, representing the concept of permanence/obsolescence of data and organic life together. Zawada's work is an illustration of a direct reaction to the actual data he mines, while mine had become a performance based work about the process of mining data or storing it.


Interview






Website

http://zawada.com.au/work/art/



Gallery

http://www.prismla.com/