Tavar Zawacki 'Connected Studies' Available
Sunday, November 9, 2025 
Artist: Tavar Zawacki
Title: Connected Studies
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 32 x 42 cm Each
Edition: UNIQUE
Prices: $1,000 Each
Tavar Zawacki is a Berlin based abstract artist who spent twenty years under the moniker ABOVE. Born in California in 1981, he left the United States at nineteen and painted his way through more than forty countries, placing thousands of upward pointing arrows on walls, trains and rooftops to encourage viewers to rise above limitations. Each arrow was cut from flexible stencil board, sprayed in a single vivid tone and often accompanied by short texts that addressed homelessness, economic inequality or political oppression, turning simple street markings into social messages. After two decades of nomadic creation, Zawacki decided in 2017 to step out from behind the pseudonym and focus on studio work, explaining that anonymity had become a mask he no longer needed. He kept his love of hard edges and optical movement, but translated it onto wood panels, aluminium and resin, layering laser cut shapes, transparent acrylic washes and glossy resin coats that make colours float above the surface. Recent series such as Connected and Metamorphosis explore how positive and negative space can merge so that one plus one equals three, a concept he illustrates through interlocking arches, shifting chevrons and concentric portals that appear to vibrate when seen from different angles. Alongside canvas pieces he continues to paint large outdoor murals, recently completing his biggest work to date on a silo in Buffalo, where twenty seven hues of arrow burst outward like a frozen firework. Whether working on the street or in the gallery, Zawacki remains committed to clarity of form, crisp lines and the belief that art should propel the eye, and the mind, ever upward.
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