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Brian Zamora is a 24-year veteran of Gehry Partners, where he bridged both designer and technical roles on a vast range of architecture projects. With Gehry Partners, Zamora contributed to a number of architectural projects, such as Senior Project Designer on the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC (2009-2013), and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas (2005-2010). Zamora’s architectural approach is much in line with his art, bridging visual arts and the practical through a 3D programming approach and technical understanding that was crafted and developed under Frank Gehry. Zamora’s art interests are light-based, much in the realm of the Light and Space Movement, and he works predominantly with objects and their shadows as the driving medium. The shadows and light sources do not seem to immediately relate to the objects, creating illusionary effects that seem to speak to 60’s Op Art as well. Playing in both
architectural scale and object scale, the work unites elements of architecture, art, and utilitarian design.
Since 2017, Zamora has been at the helm of Better Tomorrow/BCZ ARchT, a full-service design, production, and fabrication practice (founded with Mok Wai Wan).
Write up credit: Aaron Gomez, The Luckman Gallery, CSULA
I started painting and drawing as early as I can remember, doing little art presentations here and there, but in my 20’s I gave it up. As much as I loved it, I didn’t think I could do it as a career, I didn’t have the support or the skill. And for some reason, I had this idea that I wasn’t good enough to do it, no one taught me you could work hard at something, especially something creative, and you could succeed at it out in the world. Which in retrospect must have been so hard for my younger self. I was never encouraged past those moments. The ones where I believed growing in my art wasn’t an option, and that what I was already saying in the art I was making, didn’t - and couldn’t- matter to anyone other than me. So I left it behind and tried multiple careers that didn’t align with me, so I kept moving to different ones looking for what clicked. During the pandemic (obviously looking for things that made me happy and I could do locked in an apartment) I picked it back up again, I felt that click I was missing and I tumbled back in love with it full force. I now know I just can’t do without it.
