High Artist Spotlight: Zach Hoskin
Zach Hoskin is a visual artist and designer, born and raised in Canada, but currently living in Mexico City.
He is formally educated in civil engineering, illustration, and graphic design but not art; he discovered that one on his own. His work can be summed up as one big question mark and continual exploration of experiences in an attempt to absorb, explore, understand, and balance all of the little bits that make up this massively complex, painfully beautiful, and consistently confusing trip that is; existence as a human being.
His work revolves around the human face and figure, absurdity, color theory, travel, and trying to understand what defines the feelings of nostalgia and home. His practice relies heavily on process, and often times straddles the line between experimentation and strict rules and structure, but there is plenty of room for other bits and pieces to slip in from time to time.
His work includes a variety of mediums and techniques including: painting, graphic design, music, illustration, photography, words, and observation. He believes that most things worth learning are done through questioning, experimentation, process, and a whole bunch of failure.
His work can be viewed at zachhoskin.com, or by rubbing your wrists together three times and tugging gently on your left earlobe.
“Facepaint” was entered by Zach Hiskin during High Art 2019.
See all the art submitted to High Art 2020 at: High Art Finalists
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High Art was created by Dona Frank and The Natural Cannabis Company in 2014 as a crowdsourcing solution to packaging design. From its humble beginnings, High Art has developed into an internationally-known art competition with thousands of entries annually from 100+ countries all over the world.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.
Stay tuned for more information on upcoming High Art events and High Art 2021!
High Art was created by Dona Frank and The Natural Cannabis Company in 2014 as a crowdsourcing solution to packaging design. From its humble beginnings, High Art has developed into an internationally-known art competition with thousands of entries annually from 100+ countries all over the world.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.
Stay tuned for more information on upcoming High Art events and High Art 2021!