Article: Shaping the art world.(Arts & Literature)(Though his greatest work was destroyed, Jan Zach greatly influenced Northwest sculpture)

Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

YOU'VE PROBABLY never heard of Jan Zach. He never became a national art celebrity, and unless you paid attention to local and regional art 20 years ago, it's unlikely you know the name of Eugene's most profoundly influential sculptor.

Two exhibits that opened this month - the larger at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, and the smaller at the Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene - offer the first comprehensive look at Zach's work and career since the artist's death in 1986.

Zach is one of those figures so original and odd that, if a television movie were made about him, people might ...

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