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July 11 - September 20
Dave Zackin recontextualizes ceramic vessels with absurdist humor, text, sculpture, and surface illustration. His work is largely created by salvaging and modifying unfinished pottery thrown and abandoned by others at a community clay studio in Brooklyn NY. Zackin’s nominally functional vases, planters, plates, and cups explores utility and familiarity, while directing the viewer to ideas and images that take up space beyond the physical form of an object.
Zackin holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and masters degrees in Urban Studies and Public health from the City University of New York. In the early 2000s, His comedic animated short film Tunanooda appeared in eighty film festivals including the Student Emmys, Cannes, and New Directors/New Films at Lincoln Center. He designed the ubiquitous NYC Recycling guideline stickers, and New York’s 100,000 public space recycling bins. His ceramic art is popular on Instagram.
