Juno Zago brings together disparate media and images, creating process-based compositions on paper, panel, and canvas. His works dwell in introspection, addressing themes like identity and sexuality, and he is inspired by internet and meme culture to create busy-looking conglomerates that are always additive, never subtractive in nature. He?s not so much interested in the internet’s humor, but its fast-paced nature: the way pictures are appropriated in inventive and unexpected ways, where each thing is a reference to something past. Because squares and geometric abstraction are also important to him, he also creates grid-based compositions inspired by and reminiscent of pixelated images. Of his work Zago often says he’s attempting his best ‘Allison Zuckerman impression.’ Much of Zago?s work is iterative and process-based, so his pieces are often only finished when a balance of compositional elements is achieved. With interesting implementation of color as his starting point, Zago looks whenever and wherever possible, to include quotidian materials into his work in both overt and subtle ways. Things like magazine and newspaper cutouts and other printed images, stickers, gift-wrap, soda bottle labels, plastic trinkets, dried acrylic paint, and plastic rhinestones are all examples of media likely to appear (often all together) in a composition collaged on wood. And the use of dispensable materials stems from a greater interest to combat deliberately or accidentally wasteful art practices with resourcefulness.