Dark Resurrection

Jack Zajac

Throughout Jack Zajac’s seven decade career he has balanced his time equally between two and three dimensional work, focusing as much on sculpture as he has printmaking and painting. The result is a consistent influence of each medium on each other, and in Zajac’s “Dark Resurrection” an element of physicality is evident in the pulling tension he creates on the flat plane. The central figure appears carved from stone, something which the viewer could reach out and touch. The figure is at once falling and rising, the shadowed world around them appearing like a deep underwater cavern through which a current slips, carrying the figure along.

Zajac’s work often meditates on themes of introspection, sacrifice, and the human desire for connection. “Dark Resurrection” speaks to the idea of emerging from the darkness, as it does to the idea of darkness itself.