Mark Zimmermann
Imperator
2021

Name: Imperator
Brand: Mark Zimmermann
Price: 8600 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

A painting will, or will not be made. For all the romance involved in creation, there is a pragmatic objectivity at work in the studio… Whatever profundity one hopes for is found in the labor undertaken & endured. I believe my work is the integration of 2 disparate painting traditions- the coarse, painterly approach of New York & the profoundly technical innovation of Southern California. Having maintained studios on both coasts for nearly 2 decades, the color of Southern California has bled into the stark architectonics of NYC & violent incident has been softened (I would hope) by a rigorously material lucidity. Your adventures follow you into the studio. What happens next is up to you… My paintings are imbued by my travels, literature, various martial pursuits, time in the ocean, a day with my Daughter & at times, the various color relationships of my Wife’s auburn hair, backlit by the sun. Each Individual piece begins with a rigorously knifed body of paint. Once a sufficiently robust ground is achieved, an initial “drawing” element is applied, demarcating a potential formal composition. Generally, the work will then be set aside for a time. Eventually, aqueous layers of paint are applied & once dry, sanded into, revealing a history of motion & interaction. From there, the process begins anew. The creation of a painting is the telling of a tale. BIOGRAPHY Mark Zimmermann, an American artist and writer, was born to a military family in Munich, Germany, in 1967 and grew up in Hawaii and the southern United States. Since 1998, he has exhibited his paintings in 23 solo shows and numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe & Australia. In discussing his work, the editor and writer, Larry Qualls noted, “…a majestic landscape narrative… they illuminate the nature of painting itself. In a sense what these paintings do is bring a synthesis of the conceptual and the realistic; it is as if there is the conflux of two grand traditions: the purely abstract and the purely objective.” In 2000, Zimmermann became the first American artist to exhibit in a commercial gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2009, he was commissioned to create of suite of monumental paintings for the VIP Lounge of the Palazzo Tower Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2010, he was photographed by Andres Serrano, in a project documenting New York artists. Most recently, Zimmermann has been the subject of 3 short films by Los Angeles filmmaker, Eric Minh Swenson and London based filmmaker, Lawrence Berry. As a writer, he has widely published poetry and short fiction, as well as essays and critical works on painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, theatre, and film throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. His writing has been translated into six languages. He lives and works in New York City, Fishkill, New York and Encino, California.

Creator:

Mark Zimmermann (American)

Creation Year:

2021

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Acrylic,Graphite

Movement & Style:

Abstract Geometric

Period:

2010-