John Zurier

Available Inventory


Nature’s Light, 2004
oil on linen
48” x 32”



Oblaka 17 (DI), 2000
Oil on linen
16” x 20”



Exile, 2007
distemper on linen
20" x 24"



Oblaka 92, 2001/04
oil on linen
18” x 24”



Oblaka (PW), 2003
oil on linen
70" x 42"



Dishevell’d Light, 2003
Oil on linen
28” x 23”



Kindly Given, 2005
Oil on linen
38” x 30”

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 paintingís 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.

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: Peter Blum Gallery in New York; Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005; Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Kettleís 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.

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