An artist in a cap sits among paintings in a wood-lined studio.

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Zac Chambers

Florida / Brooklyn, New York

Zac Chambers pays attention to the people keeping a place running. Workers, markets, passing gestures. Raised in Florida and shaped by time in Mexico City and Brooklyn, he came to painting through photography. The pictures he takes and collects keep resurfacing, alongside an interest in Mexican muralists and the dignity they gave ordinary lives.

At SOMOS, he put thirteen paintings, a painted surfboard and an exhibition into two weeks. First came walking, meeting people and getting a feel for the town. Then the studio. As the winner of our Unknown Roads residency with Madre Mezcal, Zac arrived with enough curiosity to let Santa Teresa get under his skin. It made it into the work.

Three paintings mounted on a wooden wall: one shows a shirtless man holding two fish next to a surfboard, wearing a large hat; another depicts a man in a white shirt and hat with one hand on his hip; the third painting shows a hand holding a guitar against a dark red background.

Close-up of a person with paint-covered fingers working on a painting of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored shirt.

Silhouettes of two people and three motorcycles on a beach at sunset, with the sun low over the ocean and a small thatched shelter on the right.

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