Occupation: Sculptor, Painter Media: Steel, Bronze, Mixed. Born Queens, New York, September 7, 1941.
Education Pratt Inst, New York, 59-64, sculpture with Charles Ginnever, 63, also painting with Nicholas Buhalis, 81-83.
Teaching Positions instructor workshops, Selling Your Art, Not Your Soul, currently.
Business and Professional Positions Adjudicator, State Grants, Michigan Coun Arts, 88; curator, Working in Woodstock, Six contemporary artists, Pittsfield Arts Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Commissioned Works Sculpture, Midwood High Sch, Brooklyn, New York.
Public Works Wright State Univ Mus, Dayton, Ohio; Brooklyn Automotive High Sch, New York; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; Hecksher Mus, Huntington, New York; Woodstock Mus & Hist Soc, New York; Sonoma County Art Museum; Multiple Choice: A Multimedia Exhibit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California, 2007; Small Things Considered, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 7/19/2007-8/19/2007; The Galleria, Occidental, California, 2008.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, The Woodstock Yrs and Beyond, 93, Sebastopol Center Arts 20 X 1, California, 95, New Works, Franki Waters Gallery, Bodega Bay, California, 96, Tribute to Landscape, Impressions Gallery, Healdsburg, California, 97, The Joyful Feeling Again, Santa Rosa, California, 98, A Survey of Studio Ceramics: 1998-2002, C Street Gallery, Davis, California & And the River Flows Etcetera, Etcetera, Guerneville, California; 1st Ann Woodstock Guild-Members Show, Kleinert Art Center, 85; Form & Line, Woodstock Artist Association, Woodstock, New York, 88; Big Fruit and Big Flowers, State of California Bldg, Santa Rosa, California, 96; The Joyful Feeling Again, Mendocino, California, 97; Raining Cats and Dogs, Studio Gallery, Alameda, California, 98; Magical Lillies, New Ceramics Wimberly, Sable V Fine Art Gallery, Texas, 98; Art Full Living at Home and with Art, Sebastopol, California, 98; Getting the Pearls and New Sprit, Bodega, California, 98; The Human Form, Juried Exhib, Sebastopol Center Arts, California, 2004; Feeding the Earth & Ourselves, Saga Art Gallery, Cotati, California, 2005; 60 Yrs of Fire, Form & Function, Juried Group Exhib, Falkirk Cult Center, San Rafael, California, 2005; New Spirit, Mayhew Gallery, Tubac, Arizona, 2006-; Multiple Choice, Juried Exhib, Sebastopol, California, 2007; New Bronze Sculpture...Ceramics & Representational Sculpture also Mixed Media, 1992-2007, Bodega Landmark Studio, California; and many others.
Bibliography Tram Combs (author), Zak Zaikine's drypoints, 12/23/82 & Zaikine's tribute to the landscape, 6/1/83, Woodstock Times; Bernard Bovasso (author), Zaikine's works defy morality, Daily Freeman, 5/31/83; Rebecca Daniels (author), Zak Zaikine, Woodstock Times, Vol 14, No 25, New York, 85; Olivia Casey (author), Zak's magic, Sonoma Index-Tribune, California, 2/21/86; Mark Dorrity, Man of Steel, New Art International, Vol XII, 2007-2008; Polychrome welded steel sculptures (10 page spread), 1983-2007.
Publications author & illustrator, numerous children's books, 2003-; author, I love you (poetry book); author, I love you too (poetry book); author, Love inside (poetry book); author, Thinking of You (poetry book).
Honors and Awards First Place, Fiesta de Artes, Los Gatos, California, 76; Distinction Award, State Univ New York, Albany, 85; Best of Show, Laquinta Arts Found, 86; Grant, Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Found, 2006; Grant, Pollack-Krasner Found, 2007; Grant, Artist Fellow Found, 2007.
Memberships Sonoma Co Arts Coun; Woodstock Arts Association Inc; Cooperstown Art Association Inc; Woodstock Guild Craftsmen Inc; Sebastopol Center for Arts; Association Clay and Glass.
Arranged Collections Warren + Susie Buffett, Charles Ginnever, Red Grooms, Dothery Dehnar, Betty Asher.
Areas of Interest Creating art that reflects introspection.
