Zachary Selig

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Zachary Selig

Zachary Selig in 2007
Birth name Zachary Jay Selig
Born November 24, 1949
Seguin, Texas, USA
Nationality American (United States)
Field Painting, Author, Interior design, Spiritist
Training Parson's School of Design, Arts Students League of New York City, New York School of Interior Design, École des Beaux Arts
Movement Magic realism

Zachary Selig (b. 1949 in Seguin, Texas) is an American artist, author and spiritist.

His first publication as author and illustrator was the bestselling Kundalini Awakening - A Gentle Guide to Chakra Activation and Spiritual Growth.[1][2] Selig is a magic realist painter[3] who was the protégé of Bridget Bate Tichenor.[4] His skills as a spiritist and painter led to the creation of a unique codex titled Relaxatia,[1] an ancient Solar Kundalini paradigm that he rediscovered through Tarascan Nahaulli high priests in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico.[5] It is a codex of the human chakra system and the solar light spectrum, designed to activate Kundalini in color coded paintings.[4]

Selig's formal education in the arts began at the Parsons School of Design, then later the Art Students League of New York, the New York School of Interior Design and painting at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.[1] He has made commissioned portraits and works of art for Isabel Patiño Goldmith,[6][7]eldest daughter of Sir James Goldsmith and granddaughter of Antenor Patiño,[8] Prince Egon Von Fürstenberg,[9] Catherine Oxenberg and Kelly LeBrock,[10][11] among others. Exhibitions featuring Selig's paintings include "100th Anniversary of Hollywood - Portraits of the Stars" held at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and "Organic Landscapes" sponsored by Versace in Beverly Hills.[4]

An E! True Hollywood Story featured Selig and his close friendship with actress and fashion model Margaux Hemingway.[12] He was instrumental in launching Hemingway's career in the 1970s, and established the initial marketing and public relations format that helped make her a global celebrity, introducing Hemingway to a circle of fashion professionals in New York that included photographer Francesco Scavullo, designer Halston, Vogue editor Francis Stein and Marian McEvoy, a fashion editor for Women's Wear Daily.[13] Selig and Hemingway privately studied Solar Kundalini, yoga and meditation together at the Hemingway family's property in Ketchum, Idaho, adjacent to Sun Valley.[14] Several years later, Hemingway made Selig the creative director for her 1990 Playboy magazine cover and pictorial by photographer Arny Freytag that was shot in Belize.[15]

Selig is a Yoruba priest[16] and renowned spiritual consultant.[17] He was the consultant of paranormal phenomena for director Tobe Hooper and the production of Spontaneous Combustion (1990), a film about psychokinetic powers.[18] It received a nomination for best film in the 1991 Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Awards.[19]

Selig's background as an artist, spiritist and his trompe-l'oeil painting are used in his work as an interior designer.[20] He trained with the New York City interior design team of Bunny Mellon and Cartier designer Aldo Cipullo where he mastered trompe-l'oeil painting techniques, and his first commissioned trompe-l'oeil interiors were showcased in a 1971 House Beautiful article featuring Cipullo's residence in Manhattan.[1] In California he restored and decorated a suite of interiors in the Villa d'Este, a historic Italianate courtyard villa that was built circa 1928 for Cecil B. DeMille in West Hollywood.[21] The early 20th century Italian Renaissance style building, with its elaborately painted portico, ceiling decorations and frieze, was a former residence of silent film star Pola Negri.[22][23] Selig specializes in an 8,000 year old pre-dynastic Egyptian Neteru design theurgy,[23] using classical and modern design elements in the art of interior design harmonics.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c d Zachary Selig - bio - Imdb
  2. ^ Selby, Jon and Selig, Zachary. (1992) Kundalini Awakening, a Gentle Guide to Chakra Activation and Spiritual Growth, New York: Random House, ISBN 978-0-553-35330-3 (0-553-35330-6)
  3. ^ Ginsburg, Steve "Euroflash Takes L.A." W Magazine, August 21, 1989. pp. 20-21.
  4. ^ a b c Biography 3
  5. ^ a b Biography 2
  6. ^ Ginsburg, Steve "North of the Border." Women's Wear Daily, January 31, 1989.
  7. ^ Christy, George "The Great Life." The Hollywood Reporter, October 6, 1988. p. 19.
  8. ^ Christy, George "The Great Life." The Hollywood Reporter, February 9, 1989. p. 50.
  9. ^ Quinn, Joan A. “Click: Zachary Selig honors Prince Egon von Furstenberg." The Herald Examiner, January 26, 1989.
  10. ^ Ginsburg, Steve "Eye in California - L.A." Women's Wear Daily, February, 1988.
  11. ^ Fine Art
  12. ^ E! True Hollywood Story. Season 1, episode 4. 1997.
  13. ^ E! True Hollywood Story. Margaux Hemingway episode. 1997.
  14. ^ Extra. Margaux Hemingway TV episode. July 3, 1996.
  15. ^ Hemingway, Margaux "Papa's Girl." Pictorial by Arny Freytag. Playboy Magazine, Vol. 37, Issue 5. May, 1990. pp. 126-135.
  16. ^ Spiritual
  17. ^ Zachary Selig - authors - Random House
  18. ^ Zachary Selig - Imdb
  19. ^ Spontaneous Combustion - awards - Imdb
  20. ^ "The Art of Living in L.A." Los Angeles Magazine, July 1989.
  21. ^ Barrie-Anthony, Steven "Preservation: Idyllic...and Endangered." Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2004.
  22. ^ Gebhard, David and Winter, Robert. (1994) Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, Utah: Gibbs Smith Publishers, ISBN 0879056274 (978-0879056278978), p. 128.
  23. ^ a b Interiors

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