About John Zurier
John Zurier paints abstract, near-monochrome paintings whose colors range from muted tones to vibrant hues. Concerned with capturing qualities of light and weather effects, Zurier employs a range of brushstrokes and surface treatments, revealing the texture of the canvas or obscuring it with layers of thick impasto. Zurier’s work has been described as transcending the gestural and material to evoke the emotional. “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.”
American, b. 1958, Santa Monica, California, based in Berkeley, California
Solo Shows
2017
New York,
2017
San Francisco,
2015
New York,
John Zurier: West of the Future
2013
New York,
A spring a thousand years ago
2012
Knokke-Zoute,
Group Shows
2018
San Francisco,
Black & White - Group Exhibition
2018
San Francisco,
2018
San Francisco,
2017
Reykjavík,
2017
San Francisco,
2016
San Francisco,