Zachary Selig

Infobox Artist
name = Zachary Selig

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imagesize = 200px
caption = Zachary Selig in 2007
birthname = Zachary Jay Selig
birthdate = November 24, 1949
location = 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." [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325528/bio Zachary Selig - bio - Imdb] ] 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)] Selig is a magic realist painterGinsburg, Steve "Euroflash Takes L.A." "W Magazine", August 21, 1989. pp. 20-21.] who was the protégé of Bridget Bate Tichenor. [http://www.zacharyselig.com/bio3.php Biography 3] ] His skills as a spiritist and painter led to the creation of a unique codex titled "Relaxatia", [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325528/bio Zachary Selig - Imdb] ] an ancient Solar Kundalini paradigm that he rediscovered through Tarascan Nahaulli high priests in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico. [http://www.zacharyselig.com/bio2.php Biography 2] ] It is a codex of the human chakra system and the solar light spectrum, designed to activate Kundalini in color coded paintings. [http://www.zacharyselig.com/bio3.php - Biography 3] ]

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. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325528/bio Zachary Selig - bio - Imdb] ] He has made commissioned portraits and works of art for Isabel Patiño Goldmith,Ginsburg, Steve "North of the Border." "Women's Wear Daily", January 31, 1989.] Christy, George "The Great Life." "The Hollywood Reporter", October 6, 1988. p. 19.] eldest daughter of Sir James Goldsmith and granddaughter of Antenor Patiño,Christy, George "The Great Life." "The Hollywood Reporter", February 9, 1989. p. 50.] Prince Egon Von Fürstenberg,Quinn, Joan A. “Click: Zachary Selig honors Prince Egon von Furstenberg." "The Herald Examiner", January 26, 1989.] Catherine Oxenberg and Kelly LeBrock,Ginsburg, Steve "Eye in California - L.A." "Women's Wear Daily", February, 1988.] [http://www.zacharyselig.com/art.php Fine Art] ] 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. [http://www.zacharyselig.com/bio3.php - Biography 3] ]

An E! True Hollywood Story featured Selig and his close friendship with actress and fashion model Margaux Hemingway. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0769571/ "E! True Hollywood Story". Season 1, episode 4. 1997.] ] 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". [http://www.tv.com/e!-true-hollywood-story/margaux-hemingway/episode/184022/summary.html "E! True Hollywood Story". Margaux Hemingway episode. 1997.] ] Selig and Hemingway privately studied Solar Kundalini, yoga and meditation together at the Hemingway family's property in Ketchum, Idaho, adjacent to Sun Valley."Extra". Margaux Hemingway TV episode. July 3, 1996.] 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.Hemingway, Margaux "Papa's Girl." Pictorial by Arny Freytag. "Playboy Magazine", Vol. 37, Issue 5. May, 1990. pp. 126-135.]

Selig is a Yoruba priest [http://www.zacharyselig.com/spiritual.php Spiritual] ] and renowned spiritual consultant. [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=77549 Zachary Selig - authors - Random House] ] He was the consultant of paranormal phenomena for director Tobe Hooper and the production of "Spontaneous Combustion" (1990), a film about psychokinetic powers. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325528/ Zachary Selig - Imdb] ] It received a nomination for best film in the 1991 Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Awards. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098375/awards Spontaneous Combustion - awards - Imdb] ]

Selig's background as an artist, spiritist and his trompe-l'oeil painting are used in his work as an interior designer."The Art of Living in L.A." "Los Angeles Magazine", July 1989.] 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. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325528/bio Zachary Selig - Imdb] ] 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.Barrie-Anthony, Steven "Preservation: Idyllic...and Endangered." "Los Angeles Times", June 24, 2004.] 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. Gebhard, David and Winter, Robert. (1994) Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, Utah: Gibbs Smith Publishers, ISBN 0879056274 (978-0879056278978), p. 128.] [http://www.zacharyselig.com/interiors.php Interiors] ] Selig specializes in Sekhem, utilizing an 8,000 year old pre-dynastic Egyptian Neteru design theurgy [http://www.zacharyselig.com/interiors.php Interiors] ] with classical and modern design elements in the art of interior design harmonics. [http://www.zacharyselig.com/bio2.php Biography 2] ]

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* [http://www.zacharyselig.com Zachary Selig website]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p20632.htm The Peerage and Zachary Selig]