Zach Riley (He/Him) is a visual artist and actor based in Chicago with a focus on acrylic and oil painting. Zach's style is a blend of surrealism and expressionism with several pieces standing as direct accounts of his own dreams. Zach credits a lot of his visual "lens" to mythology, retro campy horror/ sci-fi fantasy movies, comics and video games that he navigates pathos through. He explains, "There is this magic world that is invisible to the naked eye. Particles, frequencies, and energy that surround/ and are emitted by people and places. In my work I hope to marry what is seen with the sensation of what is felt in my heart and in my nerves. To express the essence and aura of something, which inherently feels mystical." He adds, "I also like it when you can take this special, ethereal or horrifying sensation and infuse it with this absurd campiness, where it shouldn't make any sense yet somehow it makes THE most sense, and theres a delightful element of humor and intrigue to explore in that space"

You can find him Instagram at zachofalltrades333 or visit his redbubble shop under www.redbubble.com/people/zachofalltradez