Zac Banik is an inside-out black hole who makes new things out of old things. He believes Nothing, but feels strongly that you can’t build a future without a past. He wants to bring people together, Mend what is broken and put a smudge on every clean surface.

Zac was born after the Velvet Revolution, but before the Velvet Divorce, to American parents, embedded deep behind enemy lines (the Cotswolds). He now lives in the most dangerous city in the world (Portland, Oregon) with his best friend and their two cats. When not fighting back the literal armies of hell, he asks a lot of questions and comes up with an answer every now and then. So far, no one has noticed that he doesn’t even go here.

Zac’s primary artistic discipline is that of mystic bricolage and applied theurgy, with a growing practice of multidisciplinary maggidus and avant-garde ballabustery. He describes his aesthetic style as folk-modernism, combining the radical formal explorations of the early 1900’s with the deeply human signs, symbols and evidence of the maker’s hand that is preserved in folk craft.

His interests lie predominantly in having robot arms and being an actual sorcerer. He has worked enough different jobs and lived enough lives that he could fare incredibly well in a Slumdog Millionaire situation. 

Zac is a member of Gallery 114 in Portland, Oregon.