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Nathan Zakheim
Owner, Nathan Zakheim & Associates Art Conservation Studio™
Nathan Zakheim trained in rural California by parents, both fresco muralists from
childhood. He began Fresco Conservation in 1967 by using innovative techniques
to remove two frescoes painted by Bernard Zakheim from the University of California
Medical Center San Francisco. Since that time, Nathan has conserved and/or
removed and relocated more than fifty high profile frescoes, and is generally
considered an authority on fresco conservation. In addition to Fresco, Nathan
has developed and deployed more than a dozen innovative state-of-the-art methods for
the conservation of large outdoor works of art, as well as innovative techniques for
the conservation of oil paintings, sculpture, objects, etc.
In 1995, he was selected in a state-wide competition to oversee the Historic
Reconstruction of the House of Hospitality, in Balboa Park - San Diego, where he
oversaw the salvage, conservation and re-installation of 1800 categories of
decorative and artistic architectural elements of that twenty-million-dollar Historic
Reconstruction project. (That was the the first time a National Monument was
completely disassembled and reconstructed in the history of the Department of the
Interior).
Other prominent projects include: The conservation of the Arthur Mathews murals
in the California State Capital Building, Orozco's fresco of Prometheus at Pomona
College, Diego Rivera's fresco in the City Club - San Francisco, various murals in
the Coit Tower San Francisco, Stacco removal and re-location of four large Ramos
Martinez frescoes from various California sites, as well as conservation of easel
paintings by Warhol, Diebenkorn, Chagal, Fietelson, Gorky, Miro, Charles M. Russell,
Remington, etc. Graduate of San Francisco State University, Graduate work in Vedic
Studies, apprenticeship with prominent conservators. Board member of Mural
Conservancy of Los Angeles, Columnist in MCLA magazine under the title "The Mural
Doctor" Member: Western Association of Art Conservators (WAAC) and American Institute
for Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works. (AIC)
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