Zalez seamlessly combines traditional contour drawings of nudes with modern elements we find in pop art. His "Campbell's Soup Sketch" represents a fresh take on Warhol's famous silkscreen series "Campbell Soup Cans" (1962). "Intervention" takes on graffiti art with a classical twist. It features a woman sketched in a play of light and shadow upon a panel placed in a city street where we might expect to find graffiti signatures and drawings. Zalez juxtaposes and combines elements of classic nudes, pop art and sometimes digital photography to provoke us to think about the concept of femininity in modern times.
Claudia Moscovici, art critic, author of "Romanticism and Postromanicism" (Lexington Books, 2007)
