Comments on: One Foot In The Sublime: John Zurier at Peter Blum

By: colleen maloney

colleen maloney — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:22:48 +0000

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By: Joshua Neustein

Joshua Neustein — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:13:48 +0000

Stephanie Maine has as lyric and resonant a language as Zurier has a palette. Indeed here is a defiant love of painting which these days has little currency. But Oh how enviable are those that stubbornly cling to that love…
Here Maine is at her best: “The very smallest canvas, Sorgin (21 by 15 inches), painted in a close range of pungent reds, attests to Zurier’s coloration of touch. A dense, though not particularly thick, cloud of brushstrokes — both fast and slow, fat and lean — gives way to raspy pinkish areas at top and bottom where the brush has barely swept the surface, or missed it entirely. A faint impression of the stretcher bars, which painters generally try to avoid, inflects this quizzical painting’s skin with a reminder of its rudimentary mechanical infrastructure.”

I love that texture of writing. It reads like a wine connoisseur
Joshua

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By: Joshua Neustein

Joshua Neustein — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:12:09 +0000

Stephanie Maine has as lyric and resonant a language as Zurier has a palette. Indeed here is a defiant love of painting which these days has little currency. But Oh how enviable are those that stubbornly cling to that love…
Here maine is at her best: “The very smallest canvas, Sorgin (21 by 15 inches), painted in a close range of pungent reds, attests to Zurier’s coloration of touch. A dense, though not particularly thick, cloud of brushstrokes — both fast and slow, fat and lean — gives way to raspy pinkish areas at top and bottom where the brush has barely swept the surface, or missed it entirely. A faint impression of the stretcher bars, which painters generally try to avoid, inflects this quizzical painting’s skin with a reminder of its rudimentary mechanical infrastructure.”

I love that texture of writing. It reads like a wine connoisseur
Joshua

By: Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:43:31 +0000

Insightful and to the point, outstanding review!