John Zurier Explained

John Zurier
Birth Place:Santa Monica, California, United States
Movement:Abstract
Education:University of California, Berkeley
Known For:Painting

John Zurier (born 1956) is an American abstract painter, known for his minimal, near-monochrome paintings.[1] His work has shown across the United States as well as in Europe and Japan. He has worked in Reykjavik, Iceland and Berkeley, California. Zurier lives in Berkeley, California.

Education

John Zurier was born in 1956 in Santa Monica, California.

He 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.

Career and exhibition

Zurier's work has been shown in galleries and museums since 1980. Zurier was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York City,[2] the 2008 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea.[3] and the 2012 São Paulo Art Biennial in São Paulo, Brazil.

Style and technique

Zurier paints abstract, near-monochrome paintings whose colors range from muted tones to vibrant hues.[4] [5] Zurier's abstract paintings are informed by abstract expressionism, Post-War French painting, and Japanese aesthetics. His main interest is in simplicity, surface modulation, and color, as those are tied to people's experience of time.[6] Zurier's reductive paintings show his dedication to color, the material fact of painting, and the history of painting. 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. Capturing qualities of light and weather effects,[7] Zurier employs a range of brushstrokes and surface treatments,[8] varying from revealing the texture of the canvas or obscuring it with layers of thick impasto.[4] [9] [10] Zurier's work has been described as transcending the gestural and material to evoke the emotional.[11] [12] 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.”[13]

Public collections

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions

Monotype projects

Awards and teaching

Books, monographs and catalogs

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Zurier. nordenhake.com. 2019-07-10.
  2. Web site: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2002. Whitney.org. 2015-11-27.
  3. Web site: Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141028132703/http://www.gwangjubiennale.org/eng/gb/past/intro/?no=7&mode=view&BN_IDX=56 . dead . 2014-10-28 . Gwangjubiennale.org . 2015-11-27 .
  4. Feldman . Melissa . John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim . Frieze . September 2009 . 125 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208072509/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/john_zurier/ . 2015-12-08 .
  5. Ebony. David. May 12, 2015. John Zurier at Peter Blum. Art in America.
  6. Stopa. Jason. Ambiguity as Strength: A Conversation with John Zurier. Art in America. April 5, 2018.
  7. Bateman. Henry. Memories in the Landscape. The Ex Expat. March 14, 2015.
  8. Sultan. Altoon. John Zurier: Poetic Reticence. Studio and Garden. February 24, 2015.
  9. News: Hamlin. Jesse. John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color. San Francisco Chronicle. April 4, 2001. C2.
  10. News: Ray. Eleanor. John Zurier at Peter Blum. The Brooklyn Rail. March 5, 2015.
  11. News: Baker. Kenneth. Painting as decoration, agitation or just a futile expression. San Francisco Chronicle. June 18, 2005.
  12. News: Baker. Kenneth. John Zurier, Paintings and Watercolors. San Francisco Chronicle. October 22, 2011.
  13. Web site: John Zurier: Artist's Statement. johnzurier.com. January 2008.
  14. Web site: John Zurier. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2024-06-05.
  15. Web site: John Zurier . California College of the Arts . https://web.archive.org/web/20160702191341/https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/jzurier . 2016-07-02.

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