John Zurier
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1956, Santa Monica, CA
Lives Berkeley, CA and works in Oakland, CA
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, BA 1979 in Landscape Architecture
University of California at Berkeley, MFA 1983 in Painting
TEACHING POSITIONS AND AWARDS
2006-Present
Eminent Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
2002-2005
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
2001-2003
Visiting Professor, Stanford University
1999
Gerbode Faculty Foundation Grant, California College of the Arts
1996-1997
Adjunct Faculty, Santa Rosa Junior College
1991-1997
Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
1989-1991
Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco State University
1988-2005
Adjunct Faculty, California College of the Arts
1983
Eisner Award in Fine Art, University of California at Berkeley
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
University of California, San Francisco Art Collection, San Francisco, California
Principia College, Elsah, IL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
John Zurier, “Night Paintings,” Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, March 1 - April 19
2007
John Zurier, Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
John Zurier: New Works, Peter Blum SoHo, New York, NY, March 29 - May 19
2005
John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, June 1-July 2
John Zurier: New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, April 1 - May 21
2003
John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, October 1 - November 1
John Zurier: Oblaka, Peer, London, March 21 - May 4
2002
Broken Fragments: New Monotypes on Linen and Paper, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2001
Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, June 1 - July 7, 2001
Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco, April 3 - April 28, 2001
2000
Paintings 1997-1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (catalogue with interview with Lawrence Rinder)
1999
John Zurier: Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1994
John Zurier: Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1990
John Zurier: Monotypes, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1989
John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1986
John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1985
John Zurier, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara
1984
John Zurier, Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
John Zurier, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Color/Construct, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX, October 14-November 10
Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA, July 14-October 28
Selections from the Concrete, curated by Wade Wilson, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, TX, June 5 - July 6
2006
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Line and Surface: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, January 20 - March 25
Some Light, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, February 3 - March 25
2005
A Motion Picture: Videos by 18 Artists, curated by Tom Marioni, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Bazaar, curated by Laurie Reid, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR, September 1 - October 1
2004
Specific Light, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX
Array, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, July 20 - September 10
Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Gallery Artists, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, curated by David Austin, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 21 - August 3, 2003 (catalogue)
(Some) Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, April 4 - June 14
2002
John Zurier, Robert Ryman, Joseph Marioni: Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 15 - April 20
Painted Color, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 7 - May 26
XXL, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, January 23 - July 14
2001
(Some) Prints, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Minimalism: Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Selected Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999
A Quiet Storm, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Beholding Beauty, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1998
Undercurrents and Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena and the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1996
Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay-Area Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Three Painters: Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow, John Zurier, Arts Benicia Center, Benicia, CA
1993
Drawing First, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA
Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier: Recent Paintings, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
Artists’ Self-Portraits in Black and White by Eighty-six West Coast Artists, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, California (published in Zyzzyva)
Chad Buck, Dan Connally, John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992
Three Painters: Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
1990
Chain Reaction Six, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fifteen Artists of Gallery Paule Anglim, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
1988
Sixteen Young Bay Area Artists, Colorado State University Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
1986
Monotypes: Garner Tullis Workshop, Pace Editions, New York, NY
Garner Tullis Workshop, Gallery au Poisson Rouge, Praz/Vully, Switzerland
Expressive Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Gallery Artists, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
ProArts Annual, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
The Art of Collaboration: Monotypes from the Studios of Garner Tullis, California State University, San Bernadino, CA; traveled to Western Washington State University Art Gallery
Teachers and Pupils, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California
1984
Three Pick Four, University of California, San Francisco, California
MFA/UCB/1984, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1980
Paintings and Drawings, Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MONOTYPE PROJECTS
2002
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California
1998
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California
1990
Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, California
1989
Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, California
1986
Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, California
1984
Garner Tullis Workshop, Emeryville, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERIODICALS
2007
Baker, Kenneth. “Good, Bad, Ugly at Langton,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2007.
2005
Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 18
Fyfe, Joe. “John Zurier at Larry Becker,” Art in America, November
Jayavant, Prajakti. “John Zurier, New Paintings at Gallery Paule Anglim,” Stretcher.org.
Newhall, Edith. “Paint in a Bottle,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, April 15
2003
Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier’s Quiet Brush,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 25
Searle, Adrian. “Lost in Space,” The Guardian UK, July 15
2002
Aronowitz, Al. “Column Seventy”, The Blacklisted Journalist, April 1, 2002.
Baker, Kenneth. “The Possibility of an Image,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 22
Moutot, Michel. “La Biennale du Whitney Museum descend dans Central Park”, Agence France-Presse, March 9
Princenthal, Nancy. “Whither the Whitney Biennial”, Art in America. June
Saltz, Jerry. “American Bland Stand”, Village Voice, March 7
Smith, Roberta. “Bad News for Art at the Whitney Biennial”, The New York Times, March 31
Sozanski, Edward. “Three Painters,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1
Vicente, Mercedes. “La Biennal de Whitney,” La Vanguardia, March 7
2001
Baker, Kenneth. “Louise Fishman/John Zurier,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, p. B2.
Hamlin, Jesse. “John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, p. C2.
2000
Baker, Kenneth. “Painting’s Move Toward the Vanishing Point,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, p. B1.
Bonetti, David. “John Zurier’e New Work at Gallery Paule Anglim,” San Francisco Examiner, January 12, p. B-6.
1999
Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier’s Wavering Lines of Uncertainty,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, p.B10.
1998
Bonetti, David. “Abstraction is Back,” San Francisco Examiner, October 22, p.B1.
Bonetti, David. “Ten Takes on Painterly Abstraction,” San Francisco Examiner, August 11, pp. B1, B7.
Krantz, Claire Wolf. “Practice and Process,” SEE, September-October
Martin, Victoria. “Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction at the Armory Center for the Arts,” Artweek, April 1998, Volume 29, Number 4, p.24.
“Ten Takes on Painterly Abstraction,” San Francisco Examiner, August 11, pp.B1, B7.
Wilson, William. “Pasadena Armory Showcases California Abstractionists,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, p.F7.
1996
Bonetti, David. “Return of the Abstract at Mills College,” San Francisco Examiner, December 6, p.C3.
Webster, Mary Hull. “Anne Appleby, Gregg Renfrow and John Zurier at Arts Benicia,” Artweek, April, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 19-20.
Shaboy, Benny. Interview with John Zurier, studioNOTES, January/March, issue 10, pp. 4-5.
1994
Baker, Kenneth. “Reviews: John Zurier at Paule Anglim,” ARTnews, October
1993
Baker, Kenneth. “John Zurier at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, p. D3.
1992
Baker, Kenneth. “Three Painters at Oakland Show,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, p. E.
1990
Baker, Kenneth. “Zurier’s Monotypes at Bank of America,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, p. E5.
1989
Baker, Kenneth. “Forthright, Bold Abstracts,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 17
1987
Mochary, Alexandra. “Bay Area Art - Take Another Lok,” Antiques and Fine Art, November/December, pp. 71-75.
1986
Brunson, Jamie. “A Sense of Spiritual metaphor,” Artweek, November 29, vol. 17, no. 40, pp. 9-10.
Shere, Charles. “Strong Statement for Expressive Abstraction,” Oakland Tribune, November 27, p. C3.
Shere, Charles. “Vitality Spills Out from Canvases of Young Bay Artists,” Oakland Tribune, February 4, p. C1.
1985
Ames, Richard. “John Zurier at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery,” Santa Barbara California news Press, October 12, p. D26.
Shere, Charles. “Pro Arts Stages Welcome Revival of Juried Annual,” Oakland Tribune, December 24, p. C3.
Solnit, Rebecca. “A Familiar Future,” Artweek, July 13, vol. 16, no. 25, p. 6.
BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, AND CATALOGUES
2005
Pope, Alexander. John Zurier: New Paintings 2005. Text from “The Essay on Man.” San Francisco, CA: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2005. (exhibition catalogue)
2003
EXODUS: Between Promise and Fulfillment. Essay by Anthony Downey. Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge: Cambridge, England, 2003. (exhibition catalogue)
2002
Rinder, Lawrence, et. al. Whitney Biennial 2002. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002. (exhibition catalogue)
2000
John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999. Interview with Lawrence Rinder. San Francisco, CA: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2000. (exhibition catalogue)
1998
Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California. Introduction by Jay Belloli and Jeff Nathanson. Pasadena and Richmond, CA: Armory Center for the Arts and the Richmond Art Center, 1998. (exhibition catalogue)
1996
Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters. Introduction by Keith Lachowicz. Oakland, CA: Mills College Art Gallery, 1996. (exhibition catalogue)
1986
Garner Tullis Workshop: Monotypes. Introduction by Memory Holloway. Praz/Vully, Switzerland. Galerie Au Poisson Rouge, 1986. (exhibition catalogue)