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The title of Amir Zaki's absorbing show at ACME, "Seeking Clarity," ought to come with an asterisk and the aside, "But Also Intentionally Subverting It."
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Amir Zaki makes stately, often elegant photographs that subtly undermine perceptions of coherence and stability in architecture.
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Amir Zaki (b. 1974 Beaumont, California) received an MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in Los Angeles in 1999, and a BA from the University of California Riverside in Riverside, California, in 1996. Selected solo exhibitions include Time moves still at ACME Los Angeles, CA (2013); Amir Zaki: Video Works, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura, Australia (2012);Relics, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA (2010); Relics, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY (2010); Eleven Minus One, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Finished, Hagedorn Foundation, Atlanta, GA (2010); Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY (2007). Selected group exhibitions include Something about a Tree. Flag Art Foundation. NY (2013); California Context at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin (2007); Viewfinder at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (2007); Exit Music (For a Film) at Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich (2007); and Imaging + Imagining California at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California (2006).
His work is part of numerous public and private collections across the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMA, The Hammer Museum, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Orange County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. His practice is an ongoing investigation (using digital technology and media such as photography and video) of the contemporary, banal, suburban architectural landscape in an attempt, not only to formalize, organize and (at times) romanticize it, but also to complicate ideas of truthfulness and "the documentary".
He is represented by ACME in Los Angeles. Amir Zaki lives and works in Huntington Beach.
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