John Zurier

John Zurier

Héraðsdalur 3, 2014-15, oil on linen, 22 1/16 x 24 13/16 inches
Born 1956 (age 59–60)
Santa Monica, California
Nationality American
Known for Painting

John Zurier (born 1956) is an American abstract painter. Zurier paints abstract almost monochrome paintings that are informed by Abstract Expressionism, Post-War French painting, and Japanese aesthetics. His main interest is in simplicity, surface modulation, and color as it is tied to our experience of time. Zurier's reductive paintings show the artist's dedication to color, and the material fact of painting and painting’s history. His soft-hued abstract paintings play at crossing the line into representation with the sensation of nature, the silence of luminous weather and the human touch.

Education

John Zurier received a BA degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from The University of California at Berkeley in 1983.

Work

John Zurier's work has been shown in galleries and museums since 1980. Zurier paints abstract, near-monochrome paintings whose colors range from muted tones to vibrant hues.[1][2] Concerned with capturing qualities of light and weather effects,[3] Zurier employs a range of brushstrokes and surface treatments,[4] revealing the texture of the canvas or obscuring it with layers of thick impasto.[1][5][6] Zurier’s work has been described as transcending the gestural and material to evoke the emotional.[7][8] While minimal, Zurier’s practice is not minimalist, but rather composed of quiet works that focus on the structure and possibilities of a brushstroke. “I think the Japanese painter Ike No Taiga [1723–1776] was right,” Zurier has said; “the most difficult thing to achieve in painting is creating a space where absolutely nothing has been painted.”[9][10] Zurier was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York City,[11] the 2008 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea.[12] and the 2012 São Paulo Biennial in São Paulo, Brazil. Zurier is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco, Peter Blum Gallery in New York City and by Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany. Zurier lives and works in Berkeley, California.

John Zurier at work in his California studio (2014)

Selected public collections

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions

Monotype projects

Awards and teaching

Further reading

Books, monographs and catalogs

References

  1. 1 2 Feldman, Melissa (September 2009). "John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim". Frieze (125).
  2. ↑ Ebony, David (May 12, 2015). "John Zurier at Peter Blum". Art in America.
  3. ↑ Bateman, Henry (March 14, 2015). "Memories in the Landscape". The Ex Expat.
  4. ↑ Sultan, Altoon (February 24, 2015). "John Zurier: Poetic Reticence". Studio and Garden.
  5. ↑ Hamlin, Jesse (April 4, 2001). "John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color". San Francisco Chronicle. p. C2.
  6. ↑ Ray, Eleanor (March 5, 2015). "John Zurier at Peter Blum". The Brooklyn Rail.
  7. ↑ Baker, Kenneth (June 18, 2005). "Painting as decoration, agitation or just a futile expression". San Francisco Chronicle.
  8. ↑ Baker, Kenneth (October 22, 2011). "John Zurier, Paintings and Watercolors". San Francisco Chornicle.
  9. ↑ "John Zurier: Artist's Statement". johnzurier.com. January 2008.
  10. ↑ Artist John Zurier in Berlin on YouTube
  11. ↑ "Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2002". Whitney.org. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  12. ↑ "Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2008". Gwangjubiennale.org. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  13. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 2010.
  14. ↑ "California College of the Arts Distinguished Professor". 2006.
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