CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Zac Koukoravas

Embedded within Zac’s abstract painting practice are a diverse range of pictorial traditions and cultural experiences including graffiti, architecture, the electronic music scene, political activism and our relation to natural and urban environments.

Colour and form, appropriated and deconstructed by the surrounding environment, play a key role in the aesthetics of the work. His current paintings on glass feature fragmented arrangements of colour and form that are the result of complex processes involving the order and chaos of chance and possibility.

Koukoravas’ large scale works, painted on multiple layers of glass and perspex, are characterized by shadow and light, depth and space. Building on the series he exhibited as part of Exploration 13, these new works layer additional panels to create complexity, multiplicity and depth in each piece. To create the Visualised series, Zac imposed strict parameters on himself in the creative process, finding that within those limitations were seemingly infinite possibilities. These conflicting elements of chance and structure, movement and stillness are brought to bear. The resultant works are complex layers of interweaving peaks and plateaus that appear structured and composed, but are the outcome of this series of gambles with the dichotomy of order and chaos.

In 2013 Koukoravas was included in FLG’s annual emerging artists exhibition, Exploration, and was the joint winner of the FLG Emerging Artist Award. He held his first successful solo exhibition at the gallery in early 2014 with his second solo exhibition Supermodified in 2016. His works sold out at his fair debut at the 2014 Melbourne Art Fair, and his works are held in private collections nationally.

Koukoravas was recently acquired by the Justin Art House Museum (JAHM), and won the Best Artist Award at DenFair, 2016.

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Supermodified, by Andrew Gaynor 2016

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Smoke Signals 2017
acrylic and enamel on acrylic
153cm x 153cm
$8,000 AUD

Self Assemblage 2016
acrylic and enamel paint on acrylic
103cm x 103cm
Sold
Sold

Over Sentimental 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
103cm x 103cm
O.O.A.
$4,500 AUD

Super Wow 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
104cm x 104cm
Sold
Sold

Stark Reality 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
103cm x 103cm
O.O.A.
$4,500 AUD

Hyperloop 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
103cm x 103cm
Sold
Sold

LOCK 'N' POP 2016
Acrylic and enamel paint on glass, LED lights
108cm x 108cm , framed (in artist's studio)
$4,500 AUD

LOCK 2016
Acrylic & enamel paint on glass, LED lights, frameless
90cm x 90cm
$3,500 AUD

Modular Speculation 2016
acrylic paint on glass
88cm x 68cm (in artist's studio)
$2,500 AUD

Modular Suspension 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
88cm x 68cm
Sold
Sold

Adjusted Sequence 2016
acrylic paint on glass with LED
88cm x 68cm (in artist's studio)
$3,000 AUD

Idyll Flux 2016
synthetic polymer on acrylic panels
125cm x 125cm (in artist's studio)
$5,500 AUD

Liquid Flux 2016
synthetic polymer on acrylic panels
125cm x 125cm (in artist's studio)
$5,500 AUD