↓Background & Approach↓

   Zabo is a contemporary artist based in southern New Hampshire with roots in the Metro Boston area. Early study with Boston School painter Paul Ingbretson reinforced the value of observation, structure, and disciplined practice, influences that continue to inform his work today.

   Working primarily in mixed media, Zabo builds paintings through accumulation, revision, and reconstruction. Layers of acrylic, oil, oil stick, spray paint, charcoal, graphite, marker, and collage are repeatedly added, obscured, and uncovered, creating surfaces that record the history of their making. Rather than moving directly toward a predetermined image, the work evolves through a process of searching, editing, disruption, and discovery.

   His paintings explore the space between order and chaos, permanence and change. Built through continual adjustment and response, each work develops through an ongoing dialogue between intention and accident. What emerges is not a fixed narrative, but a record of transformation, where traces of what came before remain visible within the final image.