Photography, video, sculpture and installation

you will be welcomed into the ‘clean studio’ (used for photography and drawing) as well as the shop (used for sculpture).

You will find completed work, work in progress and work for sale from both Zack and Gala.

My projects are observational in nature, honoring everyday objects, and places, shifting their contexts or transforming their original intent towards a more poetic and playful reimagining. These alterations allow me to be a nonconventional story-teller. I am always looking to bend a narrative toward the psychologically and spiritual.

For the past 16 years, I have been working on projects that focus on the intersection of domestication and wilderness with my young sons and my wife, painter Gala Bent. Since 2015, we have been visiting a parcel of ravaged forest fire land in eastern Washington. We bring with us sculptures and props that are reconfigured, and left to deteriorate and change as the land does. The pictures made are mythic, process-driven images responding to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. I am compelled by the experience of time and the depiction of its passage both in the land’s shift from death to rebirth and also in the subtle change in my sons as they morph from childhood to adolescence.

Zack Bent is a Seattle artist working in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. For over 15 years, he has created work with his wife, artist Gala Bent and their three sons. Fatherhood, rituals of home, makeshift shelters and the potential for transformation are prevalent themes in his work.

He has received grants from 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Artist Trust; participated in residencies at Oxbow, Cow House Studios, Signal Fire; and exhibited work in numerous commercial and institutional settings. Bent studied Architecture at Ball State University and received an MFA in Photography at the University of Washington.

his latest sculpture and sound work that will be exhibited at Jack Straw New Media Gallery in June!

Visitors will transit up a 100-foot sloped drive. There is a step down and another step up to the studio space. Weather-permitting, if there is a need, the steps can be circumvented by opening up a garage door as the entrance.