Born on September 24, 1962, Ilgvars Zalāns is a Latvian painter and performance artist whose work turns color, movement, travel, and physical gesture into a remarkably energetic form of contemporary expressionism. His paintings can be exuberant, chaotic, playful, unsettling, and intensely physical, filled with sweeping marks, splashes, layered surfaces, distorted figures, landscapes, animals, and flashes …
