Collection: Matt Zimdars

Matt Zimdars

Practicing at Interact since 1999

Matt Zimdars uses his art practice to catalogue his visual interests, from severe weather to future dream homes to, most recently, nostrils. Zimdars's "nostrilogy" series puts noses of all shapes and sizes in the limelight, using collage and experimental bookmaking processes to explore his favorite body part. Paging through fashion magazines, clothing catalogues, and photographs submitted by friends or that he takes himself, Zimdars cuts and tapes and glues. His assemblages of words and images are instinctive and precise, each one an amused portrayal of its subject. 

Zimdars’s WCCO series explores weather systems in the Midwest and the station whose reports he followed diligently for years. With a special interest in severe weather, Zimdars’s patchwork drawings and paintings combine text from the weather channel with drawings of satellite images. 

Zimdars has presented work throughout Minnesota at Interact Gallery, the Thorpe Building during Art-a-Whirl, and Franconia Sculpture Park. He has presented work nationally in exhibitions at Lyndon House Arts Center, and Western Wisconsin State College, Make Studio, and Art Enables.