Shari talks with Zach Weber about his career as a multidisciplinary and mixed-media artist. Zach is 27 years old and has exhibited in institutions such as Art Miami, 2022, the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, The Art Center of Highland Park, IL (2022); University of Indiana Northwest (2024), and is collected by the likes of Frank Stella and Gentler Architecture. Zach has also been featured in Architectural Digest and LUXE Chicago. In this episode, Shari and Zach discuss where his passion for art began, the type of art he produces, the process of starting his own business, his mentors, his newest venture Smiley Vases, as well as lessons learned and advice for young adults wanting to start their own business. Zach also shares how he maximizes his return on life.

About Zachary:

The work of Zachary Weber (b.1997) engages with possibilities of aesthetics, materiality, and spatial awareness. Between a playful and serious engagement, Weber harnesses materials to mine at sub-conscious curiosities. Employing a diverse array of mediums from porcelain to spray-paint, techniques and gestures compound to articulate a resolve that questions the boundary of the physical and the two dimensional. In the largest sense, his work takes aim at understanding why we understand what we see.

Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Weber began his creative pursuits at an early age, walking around the city, gleaning materials from sidewalks and utilizing them into his paintings and wall sculptures. These actions would later follow him during his educational forays into photography and sculpture. Weber is a merit scholarship recipient from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), BFA (2021).

The artist currently lives and works in Chicago, IL, continuing his explorations within material understanding and the world at large.

Zachary Weber Art website: https://www.zweberart.com/

Smiley Vases website: smileyvases.com

Follow Zach on Instagram: @mudandfire

Connect with Zach on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-weber-61445921b/

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