Zak Kitnick’s Cookie-Cutter Sculptures

Russian literary theorist and critic Viktor Shklovsky once famously said that “art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived.” This is fully borne out in the orderly Brooklyn Navy Yard studio of artist Zak Kitnick, where the eye is drawn to a series of marquetry works based on the design of a backgammon board and executed in bronze, brass, copper, stainless steel, galvanized steel, and aluminum.
“Found images and found objects and found patterns have always