Claude Zervas - Starlings

Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to announce our second
one-person exhibition of work by Seattle artist Claude
Zervas. The exhibition, titled STARLINGS, consists of a
series small to medium scale oil on wood panel paintings.
Incorporating a combination of traditional and non-traditional
painting techniques, the artist explores his idiosyncratic and
highly personal visual vernacular to create thickly textured
and oddly composed works that define any concrete
explanation.

In these oil paintings I’ve been trying to achieve a
formal awkwardness within the constraints of
compositional balance. I purposely avoid the
consideration of referents until after the painting is
completed. The aim is to maintain a purity of intent,
while accepting the futility of it. This is not to say that
the paintings are devoid of meaning - the opposite in
fact. They are the concrete expression of
sublimation. – Claude Zervas

Zervas has work in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art
Museum and Portland Art Museum. He lives and works in Seattle, WA.