ZS: Peter Blume’s painting The Rock was the first one to really wow me. Then I kept going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole.ĬGN: What was the first work that really captivated you? I remember happening upon Kandinsky’s art and wanting to learn all about his movement and everything he was about. That first year I literally must have gone a hundred times. Living close to the Art Institute exposed me to a lot of great art and the way it’s carefully curated. I always liked art, but I hadn’t had the time to really focus on learning much art history. Louis), and in 2018, I moved across from the Art Institute. Zach Smith: I moved to Chicago in 2015 (I’m originally from St. Tucked away in a quiet enclave of the South Loop that borders the railway tracks, life in the Smith household unfolds alongside an art collection that is as historically fascinating as it is idiosyncratic.įollowing a brief tour, Smith and I sat down in his dining room to discuss how his interest in art first developed, how he began collecting, and what advice he would give to other young collectors who have questions about navigating museums, the art market, and living with art and children under the same roof.ĬGN: How did you first get interested in contemporary art, and what drove you to start collecting? Art is hung in nearly every room of the stylish two-story townhouse where Zach and his wife reside with their young children. When collector Zach Smith welcomed me into his family’s Chicago home, I found myself enthralled by the answers to both. Even more personal than the simple questions of taste and of what someone chooses to live with, there is the intimate question of how they live with art. To visit the home of an art collector for the first time is to ask to be surprised. Sculptures from left to right: Gordon Hall, Turned Leg Joanne Greenbaum, untitled Rachel Harrison, Permapencil 8 Cauleen Smith, Sinners Keep On Trying: Madikizela. top: Within middle: Second Sister left and right, both untitled. Pictured at left: works on the wall are by Brian Calvin.
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