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Johannes Vogt Gallery is proud to present Zach Storm鈥檚 first solo show at the gallery. Using an innovative combination of chemicals, spray paint, and pigments, Storm鈥檚 compositions on aluminum or paper draw heavily from the logic of color field painting as well as the materiality of process-based art. The show brings together three recent bodies of work entitled 鈥淪olitaire,鈥� 鈥淚nferno,鈥� and 鈥淗orizons.鈥�

Storm鈥檚 aluminum works are executed in a process that involves consecutive applications of layers of pigments. As a consequence of using pigmented urethane in this process, each layer that is added to the work must cure in a time intensive process. As such, each layer added by Storm not only increases the spatial depth of the work, but also the amount of time encoded in its production. In addition to the references to process art and post-minimalism, and despite the industrial origins of his metal backings and automotive paints, the work opens a dialogue with the atmospheric paintings of the sixties by artists such as Jules Olitski and the like.

In the series Solitaire, Storm presents five paintings in which the compiled history of the work鈥檚 creation is presented sequentially over the panels. With each painting having one additional layer of pigment, the presentation increases both in chromaticism, tension, and opacity. The reference to the card game of Solitaire evokes the repeated rhythms of a game played by one, and a challenge being worked through over a series of stacks.