Artist

Zack Peabody

born New London, CT 1968
Born
New London, Connecticut, United States
Active in
  • San Diego, California, United States
Biography

Zack Peabody uses industrial materials in his work to call attention to the beauty of everyday objects. His stainless steel and niobium brooches and bracelets look like the skeletons of buildings and bridges. Peabody likes to work in series, and each brooch he makes is one of a limited series of eight, with one more for his personal collection. He hopes that his jewelry will help his viewers recognize the austere beauty of scaffolding, cranes, and other mechanical structures.

Works by this artist (9 items)

Unknown Boricua Streaming: A Nuyorican State of Mind
Date2011
single-channel HD video, color, sound; 08:09 minutes
Not on view
Juan Sánchez, Cielo /Tierra / Esperanza, 1990, photolithograph with collograph and stenciled paper pulp on handmade paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Donna Barnard Ari in honor of Susan Sollins, 2005.18A-B, © 1990, Juan Sanchez
Cielo /​Tierra / Esperanza
Date1990
photolithograph with collograph and stenciled paper pulp on handmade paper
Not on view
Juan Sánchez, Para Don Pedro, 1992, lithograph, photolithograph and collage with additions in oil stick and pencil, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment, 1998.97, © 1992, Juan Sánchez
Para Don Pedro
Date1992
lithograph, photolithograph and collage with additions in oil stick and pencil
Not on view
Juan Sánchez, Confused Paradi(c)e, 1996, lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2013.59A-B, © 1996, Juan Sánchez
Confused Paradi(c)e
Date1996
lithograph
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2016.11 - SAAM-2016.11_6 - 124929
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
November 13, 2015March 6, 2022
Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.