The inspiration for Zaria’s drawings began in early childhood when she traveled with her family throughout several of the world’s most remote landscapes, which were the subject of her mother’s fine art photography. Her work exhibits extensively in galleries and venues throughout the United States and overseas.
In addition to exhibitions, recent projects include a series of drawings that served as the set design for the classic ballet Giselle,
which premiered in October 2012 at the Grand Theatre of Geneva,
Switzerland. Ten of her drawings were also used in the set design for House of Cards, a Netflix TV series directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey.
In August 2012 she led Chasing the Light, an
expedition sailing up the NW coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869
journey of American painter William Bradford and documenting the rapidly
changing arctic landscape. Continuing to address climate change in her
work, she spent September 2013 in the Maldives, the lowest-lying country
in the world, and arguably the most vulnerable to rising sea levels.
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truly beautiful work; and utterly alien to me. My brain just doesn't work this way; I don't understand how she can visualize it all, and build every detail into it. I have lots of complex stuff in my head; but it doesn't look like this.
ReplyDeleteit's what i love most about painting; seeing the world through the eyes of another. good stuff...
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