John Zurier

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John Zurier
File:John Zurier USA Héraðsdalur 3, 2014-15, oil on linen, 22 1-16 x 24 13-16 inches (56.04 x 63.02 cm).jpg
Héraðsdalur 3, 2014-15, oil on linen, 22 1/16 x 24 13/16 inches
Born 1956 (age 68–69)
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 an 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.

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John Zurier at work in his California studio (2014)

Selected public collections

  • Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
  • Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
  • Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
  • Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
  • Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  • University of California, San Francisco Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
  • Principia College, Elsah, IL

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions
  • East, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany, 2016
  • Between North and Night, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
  • West of the Future, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
  • John Zurier: Matrix 255", Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 2014
  • John Zurier: Recent Paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX, 2014
  • Knowledge is a blue naiveté, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany, 2013
  • A spring a thousand years ago," Peter Blum Gallery, NY, 2013
  • John Zurier: Watercolors," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 2013
  • John Zurier, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 2012
  • John Zurier Paintings and Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim,San Francisco, CA, 2011
  • White Paintings and Night Paintings, Peter Blum Chelsea, NY, 2010
  • Nordic Paintings, Galería Javier López, Madrid, 2010
  • John Zurier - New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, June 2009
  • John Zurier, Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain, 2007
  • John Zurier: New Works, Peter Blum SoHo, New York, NY, 2007
  • John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 2005
  • John Zurier: New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
  • John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 2003
  • John Zurier: Oblaka, Peer, London, 2003
  • John Zurier, Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco, 2001
  • John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (catalogue with interview by Lawrence Rinder), 2000
  • John Zurier: Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, 1999
  • John Zurier: Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 1994
  • John Zurier: Monotypes, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, 1990
  • John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 1989
  • John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 1986
  • John Zurier, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, 1985
  • John Zurier, Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1984
  • John Zurier, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA, 1984
Selected group exhibitions

Monotype projects

  • Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, 1998 and 2002
  • Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, 1989-1990
  • Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, CA, 1985-1986

Awards and teaching

  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010[13]
  • PresentEminent Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts, 2006[14]

Further reading

Books, monographs and catalogs

  • John Zurier: Paintings 1981-2014, (artist monograph), Essay by Robert Storr and foreword by Lawrence Rinder, 2015
  • 2012 Sao Paulo Bienal, The Imminence of Poetics, (catalog), Luis Pérez-Oramas, Tobi Maier, André Severo, Isabela Villanueva, 2012
  • Repeat After Me - Poems by Bill Berkson, Watercolors by John Zurier, Published by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 2011
  • 2010 California Biennial: Orange County Museum of Art, (catalog), Sarah C. Bancroft, 2010
  • To: Night (Contemporary Representations of the Night), (catalog), curated by Joachim Pissarro, Mara Hoberman, Julia Moreno, 2008
  • The 7th Gwangju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report, (catalog), curated by Okwui Enwezor, et al., 2008
  • John Zurier Night Paintings: 2007-2008, (catalog), Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
  • Pope, Alexander, John Zurier: New Paintings, (catalog), Text from “The Essay on Man” San Francisco, CA: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2005
  • EXODUS: Between Promise and Fulfillment, (catalog), Essay by Anthony Downey, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge: Cambridge, England, 2003
  • Rinder, Lawrence, et. al. Whitney Biennial 2002, (catalog), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002
  • John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999, (catalog), Interview with Lawrence Rinder, San Francisco, CA: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2000
  • Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, (catalog), Armory Center for the Arts and the Richmond Art Center, Pasadena and Richmond, CA, 1998
  • Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters, (catalog) Introduction by Keith Lachowicz, Oakland, CA: Mills College Art Gallery, 1996
  • Garner Tullis Workshop: Monotypes, (catalog) Introduction by Memory Holloway, Praz/Vully, Switzerland, Galerie Au Poisson Rouge, 1986

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