Aggie Zed explores imagination and the human experience through sculpture, drawing, and painting. Her sculptures range from copper-wire and ceramic horses and intimately scaled human-animal hybrids to mixed-media constructions she calls “scrap floats,” conceived as entries in a speculative parade of the future. Her drawings and paintings reflect a lifelong interest in the beauty and strangeness of dreams set against the complexity and quiet oddities of the human condition.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, she grew up in a large family on Sullivan's Island, riding ponies and donkeys on the beach. As a child, she watched her father repair television sets and played for hours with cheap plastic horses and cowboys that had no moving parts. She holds a fine arts degree from The University of South Carolina. After college, she lived in Richmond, Virginia, and supported herself painting by designing and building ceramic chess sets. She lives with her husband in Gordonsville, Virginia, where she keeps animals, including chickens that defy anthropomorphism.
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