John Zurier
 
1956 geboren in Santa Monica, Kalifornien (USA)
1974 – 1983 Studium an der University of California, Berkeley (USA)
1979 Bachelor of Art in Landschaftsarchitektur
1983 Master of Fine Arts in Malerei
1988 – 2005 Assistenz, California College of the Arts
1989 – 1991 Lehrauftrag an der San Francisco State University
1991 – 1997 Lehrauftrag an der University of California, Berkeley
1996 – 1997 Assistenz, Santa Rosa Junior College
2001 – 2003 Gastprofessur an der Stanford University
2002 – 2005 Gastdozent, San Francisco Art Institute
seit 2006 Außerordentlicher Professor, California College of the Arts
 
lebt in Berkeley und arbeitet in Oakland
 
 
Preise und Stipendien
 
1983 Eisner Award für Bildende Kunst, University of California, Berkeley
1999 Stipendium der Gerbode Faculty Foundation, California College of the Arts
 
 
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
 
2007 John Zurier Paintings, Galeria Javier López, Madrid
John Zurier Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2005 John Zurier New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (Broschüre mit Text von Alexander Pope)
John Zurier New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2003 John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
John Zurier Oblaka, Peer, London
2002 Broken Fragments. New Monotypes on Linen and Paper,
Aurobora Press, San Francisco
2001 John Zurier, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2000 John Zurier: Paintings 1997–1999, Gallery Paule Anglim,
San Francisco (Katalog mit interview von Lawrence Rinder)
1999 John Zurier Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco
1994 John Zurier Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1990 John Zurier Monotypes, Concourse Gallery,
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
1989 John Zurier New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco,
1986 John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1985 John Zurier, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, Kalifornien
1984 John Zurier, Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco
John Zurier, Sun Gallery, Hayward, Kalifornien
 
 
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
 
2007 x-tra, galerie claus semerak, München
(mit Stephan Fritsch, Anna Frydman, Annegret Hoch,
Stefan Saffer, Richard Schur, Tim White-Sobieski)
Trans Abstraction, Weltraum, München
Color/Construct, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas
(mit Tomas Vison)
Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation,
Colby College Museum of Art. Waterville, Maine
Selections from Concrete, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art
Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, Texas
Some, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Line and Surface Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Some Light, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 A Motion Picture Videos by 18 Artists, De Young Museum,
(kuratiert von Tom Marioni)
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Oregon,
(kuratiert von Laurie Reid)
2003 Specific Light, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas
Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Kalifornien
Array, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gallery Artists, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Kettle’s
Yard, Cambridge, England, curated by David Austin (K)
(Some) Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002 Painted Color, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, Kalifornien
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
John Zurier, Robert Ryman, Joseph Marioni:
Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
XXL, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Kalifornien
2001 (Some)Prints, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Minimalism: Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Kalifornien
Selected Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 A Quiet Storm, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Paintings, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Beholding Beauty, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, Kalifornien
1998 Undercurrents and Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts,
Oakland, Kalifornien
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena and the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, Kalifornien (Katalog)
 
 
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) Fortsetzung
 
1995 Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters,
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, Kalifornien (Katalog)
New Talent New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Three Painters: Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow, John Zurier,
Arts Benicia Center, Benicia, Kalifornien
1993 Drawing First, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud,
San Francisco
Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier: Recent Paintings, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, Kalifornien
Artists’ Self-Portraits in Black and White by Eighty-six West Coast Artists, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, (Published in Zyzzyva)
Chad Buck, Dan Connally, John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1991 Three Painters: Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, Kalifornien 
1990 Chain Reaction Six, San Francisco Arts Commission        Gallery,
San Francisco
Fifteen Artists of Gallery Paule Anglim, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, Kalifornien
1988 Sixteen Young Bay Area Artists, Colorado State University Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado
1986 Monotypes: Garner Tullis Workshop, Pace Editions, New York
Garner Tullis Workshop, Gallery au Poisson Rouge,
Praz/Vully, Switzerland
Expressive Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, Kalifornien
Gallery Artists, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, Kalifornien
ProArts Annual, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, Kalifornien
1986 The Art of Collaboration: Monotypes from the Studios of
Garner Tullis, California State University, San Bernadino, Kalifornien, und Western Washington State University Art Gallery
Teachers and Pupils, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, Kalifornien
1984 Three Pick Four, University of California, San Francisco
MFA/UCB/1984, University of California, Berkeley Art
Museum, Berkeley, Kalifornien
1980 Paintings and Drawings, Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco
 
 
Monotypie Projecte
 
2002 Aurobora Press, San Francisco
1998 Aurobora Press, San Francisco
1990 Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, Kalifornien
1989 Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, Kalifornien
1986 Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, Kalifornien
1985 Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, Kalifornien
 
 
Bibliographie: Kataloge (Auswahl)
 
John Zurier New Paintings 2005, Ausstellungskatalog, Text “The Essay on Man” von Alexander Pope, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 2005
EXODUS: between promise and fulfillment, Ausstellungskatalog, Essay von Anthony Downey, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, England
Whitney Biennial 2002, Lawrence Rinder u.a., Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, 2002
John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999, Ausstellungskatalog, Interview mit
Lawrence Rinder, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 2000
Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, Ausstellungskatalog, Einführung von Jay Belloli and Jeff Nathanson,
Armory Center for the Arts and the Richmond Art Center, Pasadena and Richmond, Kalifornien, 1998
Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters, Ausstellungskatalog,
Einführung von Keith Lachowicz, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1996
Garner Tullis Workshop: Monotypes, Ausstellungskatalog, Einführung von Memory Holloway, Galerie Au Poisson Rouge, Praz/Vully, Schweiz, 1986
 
 
Bibliographie: Artikel (Auswahl)
 
Roberta Smith, “John Zurier: Paintings”, The New York Times, May 18, 2007
Kenneth Baker, “Good, Bad, Ugly at Langton,” San Francisco Chronicle,
February 17, 2007
Joe Fyfe, “John Zurier at Larry Becker,” Art in America, November 2005
Prajakti Jayavant, “John Zurier, New Paintings at Gallery Paule Anglim,” Stretcher.org
Kenneth Baker, “Zurier at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2005
Edith Newhall, “Paint in a Bottle,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, April 15, 2005
Kenneth Baker, “Zurier’s Quiet Brush,” San Francisco Chronicle,
October 25, 2003
Adrian Searle, “Lost in Space,” The Guardian UK, July 15, 2003
Kenneth Baker, “The Possibility of an Image,” San Francisco Chronicle,
December 22, 2002
Nancy Princenthal, “Whither the Whitney Biennial”, Art in America. June 2002
Al Aronowitz, Column Seventy, The Blacklisted Journalist, April 1, 2002
Roberta Smith, “Bad News for Art at the Whitney Biennial”,
The New York Times, March 31, 2002
Michel Moutot, “La Biennale du Whitney Museum descend dans Central Park”, Agence France-Presse, 09 mars 2002
Jerry Saltz, “American Bland Stand”, Village Voice, March 7th, 2002
Mercedes Vicente, “La Biennal de Whitney,” La Vanguardia, March 7, 2002
Edward Sozanski, “Three Painters,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 2002
Kenneth Baker, “Louise Fishman/John Zurier,” San Francisco Chronicle,
April 14, 2001, p. B2
Jessie Hamlin, “John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2001, p. C2

 
Bibliographie: Artikel (Auswahl) Fortsetzung
 
David Bonetti, “John Zurier’e New Work at Gallery Paule Anglim”,
San Francisco Examiner, January 12, 2000, p. B-6
Kenneth Baker, “Painting’s Move Toward the Vanishing Point”,
San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 2000, p. B1
___. “Zurier’s Wavering Lines of Uncertainty”, San Francisco Chronicle,
March 20, 1999, p.B10
Claire Wolf Krantz, “Practice and Process”, SEE, September-October, 1998
David Bonetti, “Abstraction is Back,” San Francisco Examiner, October 22, 1998, p.B1
___. “Ten Takes on Painterly Abstraction”, San Francisco Examiner,
August 11, 1998, pp.B1, B7.
Victoria Martin, “Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction at the Armory Center for the Arts”, Artweek, April 1998, Volume 29, Number 4, p.24
William Wilson, “Pasadena Armory Showcases California Abstractionists”,
Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1998, p.F7
David Bonetti, “Return of the Abstract at Mills College”,
San Francisco Examiner, December 6, 1996, p.C3
Mary Hull Webster, “Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow and John Zurier at
Arts Benicia”, Artweek, April 1996, Volume 27, Number 4, p.19-20
Benny Shaboy, Interview with John Zurier, studioNOTES,
January/March 1996, Issue 10, p. 4-5
Kenneth Baker, “Reviews: John Zurier at Paule Anglim”, Artnews,
October 1994, Vol.93, No.8, p.194
___. “John Zurier at Anglim”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 13, 1994
___. “Abstract Painting at Anglim”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 1993, p.D3
___. “Three Painters at Oakland Show,” San Francisco Chronicle,
December 24 , 1992, p.E
___. “Zurier’s Monotypes at Bank of America”, San Francisco Chronicle,
September 20, 1990, p.E5
___. “Forthright, Bold Abstracts”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 1989.
Alexandra Mochary, “Bay Area Art–Take Another Look,” Antiques and Fine Art, November/December 1987, pp.71-75
Jamie Brunson, “A Sense of Spiritual Metaphor”, Artweek, November 29, 1986, Volume 17, Number 40, pp.9-10.
Charles Shere, “Strong Statement for Expressive Abstraction”,
Oakland Tribune, November 27, 1986, p.C3
___. “Vitality Spills Out from Canvases of Young Bay Artists”, Oakland Tribune, February 4, 1986, p.C1
___. “Pro Arts Stages Welcome Revival of Juried Annual”, Oakland Tribune, December 24, 1985, p.C3
Rebecca Solnit, “A Familiar Future”, Artweek, July 13, 1985, Volume 16, Number 25, p.6 
Richard Ames, “John Zurier at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery”, Santa Barbara California News Press, October. 12, 1985, p.D26

 
Öffentliche Sammlungen und Museen (Auswahl)
 
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Kalifornien
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
University of California, San Francisco Art Collection, San Francisco, California
Principia College, Elsah, Illinois