I am still working on stuff.

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"Undulation" 2009 Oil on Wood Currently showing at Javanaut on 39th St.
I have not updated my blog in a while. Oops. I have been very very busy. Tis the season. I have a show at Javanaut on 39th street right now, there was a great review on artkc365.com last week that I will copy and paste at the bottom of this post. Thank you Hannah for providing the space. I got re-hired for teaching another semester at UCM. Working hard on my thesis project. Had a couple video shoots around town. Check out the video from Artopia.

Pitch Artopia 2009 @ Screenland Kansas City. Shot and edited by Zac Eubank. skinlessproductions.blogspot.com
The Halo art auction is coming up so I have been working on a painting for that. Expect to see some pics and press on this coming up soon. I will leave you all with some photos of the process for a painting I am working on. Love you all. Happy Zombie Jesus Weekend!


Article featured on artkc365.com
Zac Eubank

7 a.m.-10 p.m.

JavaNaut Cafe
1615 W 39th St
Kansas City, MO
816.716.3657

Hours: 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m-8 p.m. Sunday
Runs through: April 30

Artist’s site: http://skinlessproductions.blogspot.com/

Need something to do today? Go to JavaNaut Cafe, order a mug of something hot and stimulating … and watch paint dry.

No, really.

When Zac Eubank says he’s putting new work in his show at Javanaut, he means new. It’s taken him a few extra days to get everything put up, because the oil paint on two pieces took longer to dry than he expected.

(Even though Eubank no longer has Skinless Productions Gallery, it’s still a marvel that he has time to create at all. He’s in a graduate program at Missouri-Kansas City, teaches at the University of Central Missouri and continues to operate a video production company.)

Not everything in the exhibition is hot off the easel, however. Eubank’s works, in oil and charcoal, are drawn from several series. The common thread: human beings, together and — by choice or chance — alone.

The majority of my work has to do with how we interact with each other and our surroundings, Eubank writes. I am heavily influenced by Italian Baroque paintings, Love, and Nature.

Two of those three elements combine in Seducing the Goblin King, today’s featured painting.

Eubank uses chiaroscuro, stark contrast between light and dark, to highlight the detail in the woman’s dress and make her figure almost three-dimensional. The position of her right hand is reminiscent of religious art — although in this context, it’s anything but. Her first and second fingers are extended, the others curled inward, a gesture that elevates seduction to the level of a sacred blessing. How much of herself is she putting into the benediction, though? The woman’s mask, and the smirk below it, suggest that the answer is “Not much.”

Another woman, this one obscuring her face with her hand, appears in a charcoal drawing from the same 2008 series as Seducing the Goblin King. That series, Eubank writes, explores an experience I had with a woman who felt it necessary to ironically free-fall into relations with me — but always keeping me at a distance and saving face.

Eubank doesn’t spare himself, either. In the self-portrait Fossil Fall, he appears shirtless, one hand over his face, with something black (oil, perhaps) streaming down his neck and chest.

This painting, he writes, is part of a series I am working on right now that has to do with our pollution of the environment. This one in particular is about my own detachment from nature.

As is often the case — and not only with artists — Eubank is his own worst critic. Because the paintings are from disparate series, and because not all of them were ready by last week’s hanging, he considers this show a hastily-organized hodgepodge.

It would be better, and more accurate, to think of it as a primer for those discovering Eubank’s art. Covering several stylistic and thematic bases gives people more chances to find an approach that resonates.

Whatever work touches you most, don’t touch it back. The paint might still be wet.