Zak Smith

Zak Smith illustrated every page of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. It is all online here.

I saw it last year at the Whitney Biennial where it was displayed covering one large wall, my favorite piece by far in the show. Sadly, the online version is not the easiest way to look at this thing, but I recommend it anyway. The drawings are all over the place as far as medium and style but quite striking as a group.

Edit 5/3/05: Zak commented and lead me to his page at Fredericks Freiser gallery where can be found an image of the work as it appeared at the Biennial. It really was awe inspiting to see it all together like that. Here’s a close-up. The other images there are worth looking at too, really interesting portrait work.

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