Jeff Zilm, Artist-In-Residence @ Locker Plant

On Thursday, October 9, from 6:00 to 8:00PM, the Chinati Foundation will host an opening and reception for artist in residence Jeff Zilm at the Locker Plant on East Oak Street. The exhibition, entitled The Pharmacist The Errand Boy The Bank Dick, includes six paintings made by the artist during his residency, as well as a new video. To coincide with Chinati's inauguration of the Olle Baertling exhibition, Zilm's show will be open to the public this Saturday from 10:00 to 5:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 2:00.


Jeff Zilm makes paintings and videos that take as their starting point the physical properties of film stock. For ten years or so Zilm has been collecting 16 and 35mm films, which he uses as his base material. Using detergent, Zilm strips the emulsion off a film he's collected, then mixes the liquefied emulsion with acrylic paint. This compound is then sprayed and brushed onto a canvas or panel. The paintings that result, large or small, are delicate chiaroscuros, with subtly modulated blacks and grays.

Jeff Zilm graduated with a BFA from the University of North Texas. He has shown his paintings and videos in a number of group shows in museums and galleries in Texas and New York, including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas (both 2007); the Dallas Museum of Art (2006); Texas Gallery, Houston (2005); the Jewish Museum and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York (both 2001); and others.