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

John Zurier
Born1956 (age 65–66)
Santa Monica, California
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
WebsiteJohn Zurier

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.


Career and exhibition


John 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 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.


Style and technique


John Zurier, Héraðsdalur 3, 2014-15, Oil on linen, 22 1/16 x 24 13/16 inches (56.04 x 63.02 cm)
John Zurier, Héraðsdalur 3, 2014-15, Oil on linen, 22 1/16 x 24 13/16 inches (56.04 x 63.02 cm)

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][14]


Selected public collections



Exhibitions


Selected solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions

Monotype projects



Awards and teaching



Books, monographs and catalogs



References


  1. "John Zurier". nordenhake.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  2. "Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2002". Whitney.org. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  3. "Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2008". Gwangjubiennale.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  4. Feldman, Melissa (September 2009). "John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim". Frieze (125). Archived from the original on 2015-12-08.
  5. Ebony, David (May 12, 2015). "John Zurier at Peter Blum". Art in America.
  6. Stopa, Jason (April 5, 2018). "Ambiguity as Strength: A Conversation with John Zurier". Art in America.
  7. Bateman, Henry (March 14, 2015). "Memories in the Landscape". The Ex Expat.
  8. Sultan, Altoon (February 24, 2015). "John Zurier: Poetic Reticence". Studio and Garden.
  9. Hamlin, Jesse (April 4, 2001). "John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color". San Francisco Chronicle. p. C2.
  10. Ray, Eleanor (March 5, 2015). "John Zurier at Peter Blum". The Brooklyn Rail.
  11. Baker, Kenneth (June 18, 2005). "Painting as decoration, agitation or just a futile expression". San Francisco Chronicle.
  12. Baker, Kenneth (October 22, 2011). "John Zurier, Paintings and Watercolors". San Francisco Chornicle.
  13. "John Zurier: Artist's Statement". johnzurier.com. January 2008.
  14. Artist John Zurier in Berlin on YouTube
  15. "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. "California College of the Arts Distinguished Professor". 2006. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)




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