Zack Zublena Selected by Singulart: A North American Artist to Follow in Palm Beach
Singulart has selected Zack Zublena among its curated North American Artists to Follow.
The French artist and fine art photographer brings a distinctive visual language built around gold, light, movement and the human figure.
Based in Los Angeles, Zublena works at the intersection of fine art photography, performance and contemporary sculpture. For Palm Beach, an island of gilded history, Atlantic light and some of America's most discerning collectors, Singulart's selection introduces golden figures made for its villas, its season and its love of art.
Golden Yoga Prayer explores the human body as a sculptural and contemplative form. The golden figure is transformed by light, creating an image that exists somewhere between photography, sculpture and symbolic portraiture.
In a Palm Beach interior, from an oceanfront estate on the North End to a Mizner-style villa near Worth Avenue or a residence overlooking the Lake Worth Lagoon, the work becomes a point of stillness within the island's light: an artwork, a sculptural presence and a quiet visual anchor.
Our Curation of North American Artists to Follow
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Palm Beach: An Island of Collectors, Gilded History and Art
Palm Beach has long been one of America's most important destinations for serious art collectors. Each winter season, collectors from New York, Europe and beyond return to the island, where galleries line Worth Avenue and its vias, and where some of the country's finest private collections hang in oceanfront homes.
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, the Flagler Museum and the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens shape a cultural landscape in which photography, painting and sculpture are in constant dialogue, a dialogue followed closely by the Palm Beach Daily News, the island's famous "Shiny Sheet".
Within this wider North American art landscape, Singulart's selection of Zack Zublena highlights a practice that connects photography with the physicality of sculpture and performance.
Since its expansion by Foster + Partners in 2019, the Norton Museum of Art has become one of the leading museums in the American South, with a celebrated photography collection. From the sculpture gardens of the Four Arts to the galleries of Worth Avenue and the winter season of art fairs in West Palm Beach, the Palm Beaches offer a natural context for Zack Zublena's hybrid language of photography, performance and sculptural form.
Gold as a Visual Language
Gold is one of the defining elements of Zack Zublena's artistic vocabulary. Throughout art history, gold has been associated with light, value, power, spirituality and the timeless. In Palm Beach, gold is part of the island's story: at Whitehall, Henry Flagler's Gilded Age mansion, now the Flagler Museum, gilded ballrooms and music rooms still glow as they did at the turn of the twentieth century.
Zublena brings these associations into contemporary fine art photography by applying reflective gold directly to the human figure. Skin becomes reflective, movement becomes sculptural and the body appears to move beyond ordinary representation.
In Palm Beach, where bright Atlantic light falls on coral stone and Mediterranean Revival facades, and where sunsets turn the Lake Worth Lagoon to gold, gold behaves like a mirror for the island itself: it catches light, holds it and returns it to the room.
From Bowing to Freedom: Performance and Sculpture
In Silent Power: The Bowing Shadow in Gold, the body becomes an instrument for expressing an idea rather than an identity.
The gesture of bowing can suggest submission, respect, introspection or surrender. Yet within Zublena's wider visual language, physical restraint can also become a metaphor for freedom. This ambiguity gives the work its power: a single gesture holds several meanings, and the viewer takes part in the interpretation.
Palm Beach knows this territory well. From the ballet and opera seasons of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts to Palm Beach Opera and Ballet Palm Beach, the Palm Beaches have long celebrated performance and the body in movement as forms of art.
The Bow Is Mine answers the same gesture from another angle. Folded into himself, the golden male figure turns a bow into an act of ownership rather than submission: a moment of inner strength, chosen and held. Light gathers along the spine and shoulders, and the body becomes a single sculptural curve.
Golden Yoga Duo expands Zublena's exploration of the human body through the relationship between two golden figures.
The poses create a visual balance between stillness and movement. Yoga introduces a vocabulary of concentration, balance and inner movement, qualities at home on an island where mornings begin with practice on the sand at sunrise or a quiet walk along the Lake Trail.
With the Golden Male & Female Diptych, the dialogue between two figures becomes a dialogue between the masculine and the feminine. Hung side by side in a loggia facing the ocean or in a salon of a Mizner villa, the two panels answer each other: strength and grace, line and curve, two presences that are complete on their own and even stronger together.
From the Human Figure to the Cosmic
In Supernova / Genesis / Before the First Leaf, the relationship between the human figure and the cosmic becomes particularly pronounced.
The title suggests origins, expansion and the emergence of life. The golden figure can be read simultaneously as a human body and as something larger: a fragment of a celestial landscape, a symbolic form emerging from darkness.
Palm Beachers know this sense of scale. From the shoreline, rockets launched from Cape Canaveral can be seen climbing into the night sky, and the planetarium of the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium in West Palm Beach opens a window onto the universe. Here, the human figure meets the vastness of the cosmos, and the body becomes a point of departure for imagining another state of being.
Axis of Freedom — Golden Balance extends this exploration through a triptych composition in which balance, symmetry and bodily control become central visual elements.
Presented on the long wall of an oceanfront great room or in the lobby of a historic hotel such as The Breakers, the triptych creates a visual rhythm that changes with the viewer's position. The three photographic moments function almost like a contemporary sequence of movement frozen in space.
After movement comes stillness. In Sacred Devotion, a single golden figure gathers into a pose of quiet devotion, hands joined, body still. It is the most intimate image of the series: a pilgrim at rest, holding light rather than reflecting it, and a calm, contemplative presence for a Manalapan bedroom, a private library or a quiet room filled with the sound of the ocean.
Zack Zublena: Fine Art Photography in the Palm Beach Landscape
The Palm Beaches have built a real home for photography. The Norton Museum of Art holds one of the most respected photography collections in the region, and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Delray Beach has long brought together photographers, collectors and students around the medium.
For photography collectors, the island also offers galleries where photographic prints are treated as collectible fine art rather than commercial imagery, a culture that comes fully alive during the winter season.
Zublena's work enters this conversation from a distinctive position. His photographs begin with the physical body, but the final image is constructed through performance, gold body paint, sculptural lighting and careful composition. Rooted in Fine Art Photography Los Angeles and created as Exclusive Art for Los Angeles Interiors, his work, now featured by Singulart, finds a natural place in Palm Beach residences, galleries and hotels.
Palm Beach is also home to Holden Luntz Gallery, dedicated to fine art photography for over three decades, and to the photography collection of the Norton Museum of Art, reinforcing the island's long-standing relationship with collectible photographic prints.
Zack Zublena and the Palm Beach Art Experience
In Palm Beach, art lives everywhere: in museums and galleries, but also in the lobbies of historic hotels, private clubs, restaurants on Worth Avenue and estates from the North End to Manalapan, Jupiter and Wellington. An artwork can move naturally between a private collection, a luxury hotel, a wellness space and a gallery wall.
This fluidity is central to Zack Zublena's practice. His gold figures can appear monumental and intimate at the same time, making them particularly suited to Palm Beach interiors where Mediterranean Revival architecture meets contemporary design: from an oceanfront villa to a residence in West Palm Beach or a hotel such as The Colony.
For Palm Beach collectors and interior designers, the work offers another way of experiencing photography: not simply as an image on a wall, but as a luminous physical presence within a space.
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Zack Zublena — French Artist & Fine Art Photographer · Los Angeles
