Zane Prater

Statement

Zane Prater´s work stems from and speaks to the relationship between people and the richly layered tapestry of the natural world. It is the lens through which the artist process the complexity of living systems and the medium through which he sculpts the cultural and physical environments we inhabit.

Weaving together botanical illustration, figurative painting, muralism and land-based installation art, Zane Prater engages with the realm of our mythopoetic identities, in order to examine and reimagine the narratives that we inhabit, inherit, perpetuate, or dismantle.

Drawing from the fields of deep ecology and humanistic psychology he offers a window through which to heighten the awareness of and connection to the earth beneath our feet, as well as, to the higher reached of our own human nature.

It is a search for how we, as humans, might uncover a more wholesome mode of engagement within the realm of inter-being, and to live, ever so slightly, closer to things and to the possibilities inherent within and around us.

GlogauAIR Project

We are currently living within a global system, in which, our progress and development are directly opposed to the health and vitality of the natural world. As one force flourishes the other withers, when a house is built a landscape is covered, where our neglected spaces fall to ruin life sprouts forth in abundance.

Zane Prater intends to focus on the margins between these two forces, to search the cracks and crevasses of our urban environments for signs of balance, resilience, and harmony. To look for spaces, species, people, and initiatives who are living and working at the seam between the urban and the organic.

With this, he aims to create a body of work that illuminates and strengthens the bond that we have between our culture and the environments that we inhabit and to offer a lens through which a more fruitful and harmonious way of being may come into view.

CV Summary

Exhibitions

• 2021 VER B-Murals Gallery, Barcelona
• 2020 PASSAGES B-Murals Gallery, Barcelona
• 2019 FLORA/SER Amuleto Gallery, Barcelona

Group Exhibitions

• 2021 TRICKS, Galerie Nicolas-Xavier, Montpellier France
• 2021 MGA 8, Manlleu Galarie d’Art, Manlleu, Spain
• 2021 SunNightxRVCA, RVCA Gallery, San Francvisco, California
• 2021 Lloc, Vallfogona, Spain
• 2021 Enternal, Konvent Puntzero, Berga, Spain
• 2020 B-Local, B-Murals Gallery Barcelona
• 2020 Postcards of 2020, Stolen Space Gallery, London
• 2020 Fine Line, Stollen Space Gallery, London
• 2020 Menu of Art, Amuleto Gallery, Barcelona
• 2019 HOMELESS, Void Projects, Miami
• 2019 JUXTAPOZ AT 25, JUXTAPOZ Clubhouse, Miami
• 2019 AR_t, Teorema, Barcelona
• 2019 Misnoma, Mutuo Gallery. Barcelona
• 2019 Figurativas, MEAM, Barcelona

Residencies & Festivals

• 2021 Utopia 126 Barcelona
• 2021 Konvent Puntzero, Berga, Spain
• 2021 KuBa: Kulturbahnhof.Germany
• 2021 B Murals Micro-residency, Barcelona
• 2021 Sun Night Editions, Oakland, California
• 2020 Kosovo Mural Festival
• 2020 HOME Mural Festival
• 2020 Utopia126, Barcelona
• 2020 Ru ines, Konvent Puntzero, ES.
• 2019 HOMELESS, Miami, FL.

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