Ben Zoltak Sculpture, Paintings & C.V.
Oil Painting Portfolio For Artist Ben Zoltak
Artist Ben Zoltak has completed his first public sculpture on permanent exhibition at the Stevens Point Sculpture Park. He has been creating unique oil paintings stretched on varying materials for over two decades. His work often depicts figures, buildings, natural environs, tribal animal icons and other types of textures and patterns. He works shapes and hues into eccentric rhythms, sometimes paralleling forms in the shape of the art itself, other times capturing and amplifying natural striations inherent in his subject. Ben Zoltak is inspired by his relationships with family, friends, spirit, tribal heritage and science. Please contact the artist via the link found on the right.
Artist Ben Zoltak's first public sculpture entitled: Swift Nesting Wing
Swift Nesting Wing Sculpture Bird Habitat Artist Ben Zoltak
Kinetic Tipi Sculpture Artist Ben Zoltak
Cocoon People
Aztalan Proposal
Aztalan Proposal (close up)
Allison and Bella in the Tulips
Sheridan Avenue Chicago Commission
Glacial Rollaway
Self Portrait With Tree Trunk
Wandering Turtle
Isabella Reading in the Park
Allison Reading in the Park
Wildflower Waterfall
Allison's Waterfall
Ephemeral Pool
Sofitel From Michigan Avenue Chicago
John Hancock to Sears Tower Chicago Cityscape
Sears Tower Sunrise Chicago Cityscape
Thompson Center in the Loop
Chase Tower Chicago
333 Wacker Building Chicago Cityscape
Haida Tribal Bat
Wrigley Field Win Flag Commission
Wrigley Field Win Flag (detail)
Uptown Savages Rocket Drivin' Daddy
Waiting for the Streetcar
Tlingit Walleye
Tlingit Bass
Tlingit Bluegill
Ben Zoltak Curriculum Vitae
Lake Mills, Wisconsin 53551 USA
Awards:
2013 City of Durand & Imagination Nation Request for Proposals - Honorable Mention Durand, Wisconsin
2012 Aldo Leopold Audubon Society Chimney Swift Sculpture Call For Artists,
Stevens Point Sculpture Park, Steven Point, Wisconsin on permanent installation
2010 Ray Nitschke Bridge Underpass Call for Artists, Green Bay, Wisconsin named first runner-up
Education:
2012 Rock Lake Activity Center, Instructor for Bas Relief Sculpture, Hike & Sketch class as well as Wine & Turpentine painting class, Lake Mills, Wisconsin
2002 Temporary Emergency Teachers Certification, Milwaukee Teachers Education Center/Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1995 University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree emphasis in painting and creative writing.
Exhibitions:
2012 City of Stevens Point Sculpture Park, Swift Nesting Wing, sculpture on permanent exhibition
2011 Health Sciences Learning Center, Solo Exhibition University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
2011 Great Lakes Distillery Absinthe Poster Competition, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Great Lakes Distillery Art Milwaukee Group Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Radisson Madison Art Auction, Tortoise painted with oil on fiberglass donated to University of Wisconsin Children's Hospital and the Henry Vilas Zoo
2010 Tease Salon, Solo Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
2008 Salon Selvaggio, Solo Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2007 Lincoln Park Art Festival, Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2006 High Risk Gallery, Group Halloween Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2005 Black Beetle Bar, Solo Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2005 North Side Bar, Solo Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2005 Street Side Café, Solo Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2004 High Risk Gallery, Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2003 Art Café, Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2003 High Risk Gallery, Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2002 Sulzer Regional Library, Junkyard Tortoise,
Solo Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2001 Paul Klein Gallery Art donated to Pediatric Aids-Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
1998 Brewed Awakenings Coffee House, The Women’s Resolution Exhibition in collaboration with the Milwaukee Sojourner Truth House, Solo Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
1997 Reed Street Station, Solo Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
1996 55405 Neighborhood Gallery, Uptown Art, Group Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
1995 The Mission Coffee House, Group Exhibition, Stevens Point, WI
Public and Private Art Commissions:
2011 Public art created for the Art Zoobilee benefiting the American Family Children's Hospital and the Henry Vilas Zoo Madison, Wisconsin, Love For Lonesome George, Oil on fiberglass resin
2010 Commissioned by Russ and Delores Holmes, Holmes Family Portrait, Private Collection, Oil on linen
2010 Commissioned by Lynn Tachick, Tachick Sons, Private Collection, Oil on Canvas board
2009 Commissioned by Mike Willkomm Publicly Exhibited at 5510 N. Sheridan, Chicago, IL 5510 N. Sheridan Building Oil on Canvas
2006 Purchased by Writer/Producer Dave Hoekstra, Walleye Spirit,
Private Collection, Oil on Canvas
2004Commissioned by Christian Domin, Sheffield Street Win Flag, Private Collection, Oil on Canvas
2003Commissioned by James and Connie Moler, 333 W. Wacker Building, Private Collection, Oil on Canvas
2003Commissioned by Jennifer Swanson, Chicago Cityscape,
Private Collection, Oil on Canvas
2001Commissioned by John Zigler, Johnny Z’s Uptown Savages Rocket Drivin’ Daddy, Oil on Canvas
2000 Commissioned by Reed Street Station, Vampire,
Private Collection, Oil on Canvas
1999 Commissioned by Susie Rush, Silver Blue Female, Private Collection, Oil On Canvas
Writing:
2012 Sculpture Park to Debut 8 New Works, Stevens Point Journal by Jamie Jung
2011 Published first creative inspirational eBook on Amazon.Com :
Your Life As A Painting
2010 Creative Inspiration and Motivation: What it is!
HubPages.Com
Art articles by artist Ben Zoltak
- How To Prepare A Canvas Painting With Gesso
You must prepare a canvas or any other painting surface first, before you begin to paint. If you don't an art historian will come to your studio and spank you with a boat oar. Well, maybe not, but you... - Creative Inspiration and Motivation: What it is! (an...
Close-up from Ben Zoltak oil painting Over the years, as someone who enjoys painting and writing, I have been asked,
Comments
Ben,
I vote for the cityscapes! I didn't see Lake Mills in your work? Did I miss it?
Wow, Ben, your work is amazing! I love it all, especially the cityscapes.
I'm sure everyone has a favorite. I love Allison & Bella in the Tulips & your oil on cut steel paintings the best, but I'd love to see them all in person. That usually changes everything. Awesome work! Thanks for sharing it.
Great Artwork!
Hey Ben, thanks for the sculpture, interesting mosaic a la Parc Guell Barca - and some cool textures in your painting. I live close to the Yorkshire Sculpture park in Yorkshire, England - and if you're ever over the pond visiting do not miss this fine open air and enclosed gallery. A lot of Hepworth and Henry Moore.
Votes and a share. Bon peinture!
Congrats on your awesome sculpture, and all the other great pieces too!
Your Hub collection and vitae have uplifted my day, Ben Zoltak. I rated the Hub up and many more, and pinned several of your works. Your Haida Bat is my favorite, but the Haida fishes with an inner fish headed the other direction capture an essence of the People and their history I think not many know.
Hi Ben - haven't read one of your hubs for some time. I don't know where I've been! I am normally a person who loves landscapes but I am crazy about your city scapes. You make the buildings look so vibrant and the dead concrete and cold rebar of high rise hard edges seem warm and alive. You are the Man!
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Dear Ben : It has been a while sence I have visited you're hubs. You're sculpture , and you're paintings are fantastic, and amazing . I especially like Buckthorn. Wishing you, and you're cherished family great blessings.
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