January 1, 1995: Headlines: COS - Peru: Art: Murals: Painting: Urban Renewal: Pewarts: Peru RPCV Isaiah Zagar says "Philadelphia is the center of the art world!" and sets out to prove it by turning the town itself into a work of art
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January 1, 1995: Headlines: COS - Peru: Art: Murals: Painting: Urban Renewal: Pewarts: Peru RPCV Isaiah Zagar says "Philadelphia is the center of the art world!" and sets out to prove it by turning the town itself into a work of art
Peru RPCV Isaiah Zagar says "Philadelphia is the center of the art world!" and sets out to prove it by turning the town itself into a work of art
Peru RPCV Isaiah Zagar says "Philadelphia is the center of the art world!" and sets out to prove it by turning the town itself into a work of art
Isaiah Zagar is part visual artist and part evangelical prophet…but mostly evangelical prophet. He proclaims, "Philadelphia is the center of the art world!" and sets out to prove it by turning the town itself into a work of art. Pedestrians wander through mazes of glass and crockery affixed to buildings with brightly colored grout. Fragments of mirror return the light and movement of each morning, noon, and night, lending urban architecture a subtly shifting skin which suggests that the tired, gray metropolis is being reborn in a storm of color and glitter. As an artist, his ebullient application of rivers of tile, scrap mirrors and scavenged ceramic to architecture breathe new life into tired structures. He dazzles, with reflection and recombination, recycling and incorporating ordinary matter into an elusive new cloak for the city. He received his B.A. from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His sculptures, paintings, prints, and ceramic works have been exhibited nationally and, in Philadelphia, he is represented by Snyderman Gallery. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and his work has been commissioned for numerous public spaces, including mosaics at the Tyler School of Art, the Clay Studio, and the Painted Bride Art Center. His work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in both a solo installation and in the group exhibitions "Philadelphia IV" and "Artists Choose Artists". Mr. Zagar was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Morris Gallery, at the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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