John Zurier New Paintings Bull.Miletic Wiegenlied June 1-July 2, 2005 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by John Zurier. This exhibition of John Zurier's reductive, near-monochrome paintings offers renewed testimony to the artist's dedication to color, the material fact of painting and painting's history. His soft-hued abstract printings play at crossing the line into representation. Filled with the sensation of nature, they evoke the silence of luminous weather and the pulse of a human touch. In The Guardian, London critic Adrian Searle writes, Zurier's layers of thin oil, his submerged brushstrokes, his carefully tuned colour notes and diffused fields � might make us think of the status and appeal of images on the verge of coalescence, or equally, on the brink of disappearance. The artist will present new oil paintings on linen in a variety of size and palette. Ranging from intimate canvases of a light sky blue to large works in dark hues, the show provides the viewer a variety of weight and color, allowing associations of seasons, times of day and dispositions of the psyche. Metaphor is further encouraged by titles borrowed by the poet Alexander Pope. John Zurier lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Recent exhibitions include: Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005; Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England, 2003; Oblaka, Peer Trust, London, England, 2003; Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2002. A small illustrated catalog, ,John Zurier, New Paintings 2005 , published by Gallery Paule Anglim is available. In Gallery II we will present of a new video work by the collaborative artists BULL.MILETIC. The artists Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic will show a video installation, Wiegenlied . This poetically succinct work features a revolving image projected onto a pillow on the floor. A lullaby sound element accompanies the visuals in motion. "In our video installations we work with the notion of time as a presence of space rather than a particular duration. By juxtaposing space to different time sequencing away from the familiar, we obscure the unity and recognize the beauty of a fragment." BULL.MILETIC's work has been shown internationally at venues such as the Pasadena Museum of California Art; Oakland Art Gallery; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco; Circa Gallery, Montreal, Canada; Transmediale, Berlin, Germany; and IMPAKT, Utrecht, The Netherlands. BULL.MILETIC were Artists-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, in 2003 and produced Wiegenlied while in residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin in 2004. Synne BULL was born in Oslo, Norway in 1973 and received her BFA in 2001 and MFA in 2003 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She studied History and Theory of Theater at the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1998 and Philosophy and Science Theory at the University of Oslo in Bali, Indonesia in 1997. Dragan MILETIC was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1970 and received his MFA in 2000 from the San Francisco Art Institute and his BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1997. Image above left: Detail of Wiegenlied , single-channel video installation, 2004, DVD, NTSC More information can be seen on the artist's website www.bull.miletic.info A reception for the artists will be held Thursday, June 2nd from 5:30- 7:30 p.m. at the gallery.