Zachary Lank: Sundown’s Sowers presents a new body of paintings that examine masculinity, spirituality, and the inheritance of American myth. Lank depicts hollowed figures and disembodied garments set within pastoral landscapes that feel at once tender and unsettled, using absence as a stand-in for the body itself.
Working through a traditional, layered painting process, Lank draws from Romantic landscape, grand-manner portraiture, and proto-surreal metaphysical painting. To sow at sundown is to labor in uncertainty - a condition shared by his figures, who persist in gesture and ritual even as presence recedes.