Zach Atticus _ Lot 41

Canadian Fine Arts

Title: Night Booth

This painting depicts an empty parking booth glowing against the darkness of a vacant lot. Its exaggerated light bloom softens the surrounding space, allowing the booth to almost dissolve into the night. This piece reflects an ongoing exploration of atmosphere, solitude, and the quiet drama of ordinary urban places. By isolating a familiar structure and heightening its illumination, the painting becomes a study in stillness—balancing eerie calm with a sense of quiet beauty.

Dimensions: 10" x 8"

Medium: Oil on linen

Value: $1,000

Date: 2025

Zach Atticus (b. 1992) is a Toronto-based realist painter whose work uses light, colour, and atmosphere to create contemplative scenes of solitude and stillness. After graduating from OCAD University, majoring in illustration in 2015, he switched his focus towards oil painting. He joined his first residency at MOCA (2019–20). Leaving during the pandemic, he developed a series of paintings that captured Toronto’s eerie calm, balancing emotional tension with peace. In 2024, his residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, broadened his exploration of landscape and technique, while continuing his pursuit of mood and atmosphere in representational painting.