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John Zinsser
Large Oil Painting Color field, Minimalist, Abstract Expressionist John Zinsser

1997

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John Zinsser (American, b. 1961) Iron City, 1997 oil on canvas signed John Zinsser, titled and dated (verso) 72 x 60 inches Done in bright vibrant shades of red. American artist John Zinsser was born in New York City in 1961 and studied art, art history and literature at Yale University (where he did his senior thesis on Andy Warhol). He co-founded Journal of Contemporary Art in 1987 and lectures at The New School. He has had over 40 solo shows in the U.S. and Europe, and is known in Europe for his association with monochrome painters of a previous generation. Zinsser has been a devotee of postwar Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism for decades. A native New Yorker, he came of age as an artist during the late 1980s and early 1990s alongside other now established abstract painters, including Richmond Burton, Gail Fitzgerald, Daniel Levine, Carl Ostendarp, Kate Shepherd, Cary Smith, Dan Walsh, Mary Weatherford, and Stephen Westfall, among others. Zinsser’s material paintings and conceptual drawings often pay homage to, expand upon, and subvert earlier precedents in NYC’s painting history, from Abstract Expressionism to Radical Painting to Post-Modernism. Zinsser interned for the architect Peter Eisenman, when he was director of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City. Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Six Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA New New York: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century, curated by Debra Drexler and Liam Davis, 2016 Carrie Moyer/David Reed/John Zinsser, Dedalus Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Fabulists, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY (Four-person show with: Donald Evans, Dwight Ripley, Florent Morellet) Feelings of Knowing, Mitart Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (Two-person show with: Katrin Hotz) Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College, NY, curated by Pepe Karmel and Joachim Pissarro 2009 Assemblage Abstract, Dinter Fine Art, NY 2007 Surfacing Now: Joe Fyfe and John Zinsser, JG Contemporary, (at flow, Miami Beach) Monochrome Painting: Some Versions from Ad Reinhardt to Present, CardwellJimmerson Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 2006 About Light, Galerie Lelong, NY 2003 Paintings and Sculpture, Maximilian Krips Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1999 Abstraction, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago (four-person show with Daniel Reynolds, Rene Pierre Allain, Paul Campbell) New American Abstraction, Windows Gallery, Brussels (three-person show with David Row, Lydia Dona) He was included in the museum show Slow Art: Painting in New York Now at MoMA PS1 in NY along with Jennifer Bartlett, Ross Bleckner, Buffie Johnson, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Pat Steir and more. John Zinsser has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States since 1980. His paintings are in the Richard Brown Baker collection at Yale, the Sammlung Goetz in Munich, the Mint Museum In Charlotte and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
  • Creator:
    John Zinsser (1961, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1997
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 72 in (182.88 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3829610842

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