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Joe Zucker Art

American, b. 1941
In the 1970s, Joe Zucker experimented with what has become his signature technique: gluing cotton balls to canvas in a gridded arrangement and painting over them. Resulting in a highly textured surface reminiscent of mosaic, this technique radically transforms the surface of the canvas and challenges the “flatness” that critics like Clement Greenberg championed as essential to the discipline of painting. In his compositions, Zucker constructs simplified geometric renderings of subjects like houses and sailboats, where the subject matter serves only a vehicle for the artist’s exploration of formal qualities. In his series of "Box Paintings" made in 2004-05, Zucker constructed shallow wooden boxes with various compartments into which he poured a single color of enamel, resulting in flat areas of color that allude to the ideals of modernist painting.
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Artist: Joe Zucker
The Relocation of Property by Natural Forces, with original colophon envelope
By Joe Zucker
Located in New York, NY
Joe Zucker The Relocation of Property by Natural Forces Rubber stamp print on Arches 88 paper Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc. Printed by Aaron Arnow Paper size: 8 x 8 in...
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1970s Conceptual Joe Zucker Art

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Lithograph

The Relocation of Property by Natural Forces, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Joe Zucker
By Joe Zucker
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin d’Arches 88 paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York; distributed by Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; rubber stamp engraved by Unity Engraving Company Inc, Englewood; printed by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, under the direction of Aaron Arnow, New York, from an edition of M, 1977. JOSEPH IRWIN ZUCKER (1941-2024) was an American artist. Born in Chicago, he received a B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964 and an M.F.A., from the same institution in 1966. His art was quirky and idiosyncratic, and most often related to the materials, such as cotton and plastic. His Porthole #4 from 1981, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrated his innovative use of unusual materials. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Mary and Leigh Block...
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1970s Contemporary Joe Zucker Art

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Printer's Ink

Ponce de Leon’s Flagship
By Joe Zucker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Joe Zucker - American (1941- ) Title: Ponce de Leon’s Flagship Year: 1984 Medium: Lithograph with acrylic and collage Size: 36 x 48 inches Signature: Signed, dated lower right Condition: Very good Edition: 18. This one: 10/18 Series: From a series of 5 lithographs on Ponce de Leon and his discovery of Florida Publisher: Solo Press This very fine print with acrylic and collage the collage elements are foil) is by the noted American artist Joe Zucker (1941-). It is in very good condition. I have included below Zucker’s biography and very extensive CV from his website. Biography 1941 Born in Chicago, Illinois Lives and Works in East Hampton, New York Education 1966 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1964 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Selected Solo Exhibitions 2022 Detritus 2020, The Madoo Conservancy, New York 2019 100-Foot-Long Piece, Marlborough, New York Forbidden Motion – Surface, Image and Metaphor, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy 2017 1000 Brushstrokes, Maccarone, Los Angeles Armada, National Arts Club, New York 2015 Life & Times of an Orb Weaver, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY 2013 Empire Descending a Staircase, Mary Boone Gallery, New York 2011 A Unified Theory, Mary Boone Gallery, New York The Grid Paintings, Corbett vs...
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1980s Contemporary Joe Zucker Art

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Foil

Hands, Pop Art Lithograph by Joe Zucker
By Joe Zucker
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Joe Zucker, American (1941) Date: 1982 Lithograph, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Edition of 82/100 Image Size: 30 x 20.5 inches Size: 33 x 23 in. (83.82 x 58.42 cm)
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1980s Pop Art Joe Zucker Art

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Lithograph

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