Joe zucker
"I have diversity in my work, but I also have control of it. I rarely paint things that I like."
Joe Zucker (1941-2024) has consistently for over four decades been one of America's most innovative artists. From the Seventies, Zucker experimented with what has become his signature technique: canvases composed by cotton balls rolled in paint. Resulting in a highly textured surface reminiscent of mosaic, this technique radically transforms the surface of the canvas and challenges the “flatness”. Zucker, like Robert Ryman, was and remains acutely focused on building a painting out of painting’s most basic means and materials: the visible interaction of the painting tool, the application of paint, the materiality and shape of the support. Throughout his extensive career, Zucker has exhibited alongside artists such as Agnes Martin and Brice Marden at the pioneering Bykert Gallery in the 1960s, and later with dealer Holly Solomon, who was well known for her support of new and experimental mediums.
Zucker’s work is in extensive public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, The New Museum in New York, The New York Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, The Tel Aviv Museum in Israel, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and many others.
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Joe ZuckerI Haven't Had A martini In 25 years Heh Heh, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic93.5 x 93.5 cm
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Joe ZuckerBarragan And 4 Girls from The Office, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic93.5 x 93.5 cm
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Joe ZuckerBella di Cerignola, 2018Burlap,Cotton,acrylic63.5 x 63.5 cm
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Joe Zucker2 Green Olives, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic63.5 x 63.5 cm
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Joe ZuckerBosana, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic38 x 76 cm
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Joe ZuckerLoose Olive, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic38 x 76 cm
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Joe ZuckerCoratina, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic38 x 76 cm
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Joe ZuckerVodka Not Gin, 2018burlap,cotton,acrylic38 x 76 cm
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Joe Zucker - Forbidden Motion: Surface, Image and Metaphor
30 Mar - 1 May 2019Forbidden Motion – Surface, Image and Metaphor explores Zucker’s lifelong interest in still life paintings and is reminiscent of Giorgio Morandi’s Nature Morte. Muted color palettes and minimalistic subjects clash...Read more -
Copper, Marble, Cotton - Group show
20 Oct - 1 Dec 2018The exhibition examines the choice, by each of the above-mentioned artists, of specific traditional materials for both their cultural associations and formal properties, enlightening also the significance role of traditional...Read more
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Joe Zucker - Painter of Canvases That Subverted Conventions, Dies at 83
ARTICLE | ART NEWS May 16, 2024 Read more -
Artists Choose Parrish Part I: Joe Zucker
VIDEO INTERVIEW | PARRISH ART MUSEUM August 2, 2023 Read more -
Joe Zucker group show "Strike fast, dance lightly: artists on boxing"
The Church and the Flag Art Foundation, Sag Harbour, New York City, NY, USA June 24, 2023This summer, The Church and The Flag Art Foundation in New York City are collaborating on an exhibition in both of their venues. Strike Fast,...Read more -
Joe Zucker "Detritus 2020"
Madoo Conservancy, Sagaponack, NY, USA August 13, 2022Detritus 2020, a selection of serial works, are the result of Joe Zucker’s reflections upon past and present histories of Eastern Europe. Created while in...Read more -
Joe Zucker, David Novros and Lynda Benglis "13 Artists: A Tribute to Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery 1966-75"
David Nolan, New York, USA June 3, 2021The exhibition includes work by Lynda Benglis, Chuck Close, Robert Duran, Ralph Humphrey, Barry Le Va, Brice Marden, Paul Mogensen, David Novros, Deborah Remington, Dorothea...Read more -
Joe Bradley and Joe Zucker with Phong H. Bui
VIDEO | THE BROOKLYN RAIL September 15, 2020 Read more -
Joe Zucker "100-Foot-Long Piece, 1968–1969”
Marlborough Gallery, New York City, NY, USA September 5, 2019This year marks the 50th anniversary of Zucker’s monumental, multi-panel work, which will be on view at Marlborough’s downtown Manhattan location alongside archival pieces related...Read more -
Joe Zucker "Boxing rounds #13, #14, AND #15" on view
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, USA August 20, 2019In the 1950s art critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term “action painting” to describe the work of the Abstract Expressionists, confirming that a painting was...Read more -
Joe Zucker - group show "Seeing ideas"
Mana Contemporary Chicago, USA April 3, 2019Mana Contemporary is pleased to present Seeing Ideas , a new exhibition in Chicago featuring work by two painters, Sigfredo Chacón and Joe Zucker, who...Read more -
JOE ZUCKER with Janet Goleas
INTERVIEW | THE BROOKLYN RAIL September 1, 2017 Read more -
Joe Zucker with Phong Bui
INTERVIEW | THE BROOKLYN RAIL December 22, 2011 Read more -
Joe Zucker by Chuck Close
ARTICLE | BOMB MAGAZINE July 2, 2007 Read more