About
Zach McLane is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles. His work explores legibility and processes meaning making. It takes shape in essays, videos, and poems. Merging aspects of memoir with theoretical discourse and artistic critique, he finds intimate connections between seemingly disparate ideas. McLane’s research-based practice is grounded critical theory, art history, and film theory. His recent video work uses processes of degradation and repetition as generative tools for meaning. He holds a BA in Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California, where he studied narrative form and contemporary visual culture.
Education
2018, BA, Narrative Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibitions / Events
2021, "Excerpts from the Writing Machine," at Pillow Lava online lecture marathon, Web-based
2020, Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, USA
2020, Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2019, origins, Toby’s Feed Barn, Point Reyes, USA
2019, OPEN SPACE, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, USA
2019, 10 Artists to Watch, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2018, Between Memory + Image, Floating Projects Collective, Hong Kong
2018, Bounce Haus, Private residence, Los Angeles, USA
2017, 100, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Publications
2021, Videography. Documentary Impulses. Our Manifesto, Contributor, Forthcoming
2020, Quadrant Field: Marcos Lutyens, Editor, Apr 2020
2019, “How might a beginning be an opening?” Floating Projects Collective, Mar 2019
2018, “Crossing the Distance Between Reading and Speaking,” Floating Projects Collective, Oct 2018
2018, “Boundary of Invisibility: Degraded Images and Touchscreens,” in PLEXUS, Nov 2018
2017, “Things I Lost,” 100 Zine, May 2017
2016, “Untitled,” nsfw mag, Jan 2016