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Dates
Feb 8 - Mar 8, 2008
Location
James Graham & Sons
32 East 67th Street
New York, NY 10065
John Zinsser
Recent WorksDates
Feb 8 - Mar 8, 2008
Location
James Graham & Sons
32 East 67th Street
New York, NY 10065
John Zinsser
Geometry and Ego, 2007
Alkyd enamel and oil on canvas
30 x 28 inches
Press Release
New York, January 2008
An exhibition of abstract paintings by Brooklyn-based artist John Zinsser will be on view at JG | Contemporary / James Graham & Sons from February 8th through March 8th, 2008. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, February 7th, from 6 to 8 pm. A full-color catalog will accompany the exhibition with an essay by critic Chris Sharp and an interview with the artist conducted by Cindi Di Marzo.
This will be Zinsser's first exhibition with James Graham & Sons. The show will consist of approximately twelve large- and mid-sized abstract paintings, in which Zinsser continues his long-standing exploration of materiality and color.
Zinsser is well known in the New York art world for the tough, reductive works he has exhibited over the past 20 years. Usually just two-colors, his canvases juxtapose enamel and oil paint to dramatic pictorial ends. He actively draws upon the legacies of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism to explore more urgent contemporary concerns: mechanical reproduction, new forms of automatism, and, ultimately, the trace of the artist's hand in painting.
Chris Sharp writes in his catalog essay:
Zinsser's work has always engaged the most fundamental elements of painting as determined by Post War American abstraction: paint, ground, space, and gesture—albeit in a monochrome, objective abstraction tradition. In his new mode of painting, all of these elements are still in play, but in a more evocative form. Electric skeins are cast over penumbral grids of paint that float on single color grounds.
Zinsser has been showing regularly since the late 1980s. His most recent New York exhibition, at Von Lintel Gallery in 2003, was reviewed in The New York Times and Time Out. Zinsser has long been represented in Belgium by Galerie S65. He co-founded The Journal of Contemporary Art in 1988 and has written extensively for Art in America, Artnet and other publications.
