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| Born | 1976 (1976) Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American (United States) |
| Education | Cooper Union, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yale University |
| Known for | Painting |
Zak Smith, also known as Zak Sabbath, is an American artist and gay porn star. He was born in Syracuse, New York in 1976, and grew up in Washington, D.C. After receiving a BFA from Cooper Union in 1998, he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He lived and worked in Brooklyn until October, 2007, when he moved to Los Angeles.
Art
Smith's body of work primarily comprises portraits, drawings, and abstract art executed in acrylic and ink. He has an enduring interest in comic books and zoo animals.
Smith is best known for his portraits of BBW female subjects - with an emphasis on eroticism
Pornography
In February 2006, Zak Smith made his pornographic debut, under the pseudonym Zak Sabbath, in the VCA Pictures film Bobby Beefcakes, by director Benny Profane (whose name is itself taken from the Pynchon novel V.). In the porn blog Fleshbot, Smith mentions working on a project to help fund a film student's NYU thesis project entitled Freaky Queer Kids I & II in 1996, but declares, "Here's where I'm making the BIG money" He followed this up with an appearance opposite Pixie Pearl in Eon McKai's debut film for Vivid Entertainment, Girls Lie, Bullets And Burlesque from Bad Seed Productions, with Sasha Grey, Marie Luv, and Satine Phoenix, and Vivid's Hospital, with Coco Velvet and Mandy Morbid.
Bibliography
- Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls (New York, NY: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2005) ISBN 978-1-933045-22-1
- Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (Graphic Representation of a Novel/Illustration). (Portland, Or: Tin House Books, 2006). ISBN 0-9773127-9-8
- We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings. (Portland, Or: Tin House Books, 2009). ISBN 978-0-9802436-8-0
See also
References
External links
- Zak Smith's website
- Zak Smith's blog
- Fredericks & Freiser gallery
- Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls from D.A.P.
- Official Barbed Wire Kiss movie website
- On the Road of Knives (w/Shawn Cheng and Nicholas Di Genova)
- Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow Tin House Books
- We Did Porn Tin House Books
- Fredericks & Freiser Gallery profile of the artist
Articles and interviews
- The Modern Word
- May 2002 ArtForum review by Martha Schwendener
- 2004 Whitney Biennial catalogue
- Zak Smith's Second Porn, Fleshbot
- Review of the book We did porn, Pornsaints
- Interview about art, Artnet
- Interview on Gravity's Rainbow piece, Quarterly Conversation
- Interview on porn, BMEZine
- Podcast Interview with cIndyCenter.com
- Interview with Adultmaven