Near and far 4, 2025, oil on canvas, 36" x 30"

"Zlotsky’s paintings are beautiful, but they are not complacent. They make sense in order to unmake it. She talks about how time and history—personal, political, aesthetic—lingers in her thinking in the studio; about how she wants things to hold together, but for that holding to be provisional, just for now. As in animations, movement happens in frames depicting complete worldviews, where any stasis represents the change already occurring."

from a 2025 exhibition essay by Gaby Collins-Fernandez