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JOE ZUCKER: Container Ships,

January 11 - February 17, 2006

JOE ZUCKER: Container Ships

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    JOE ZUCKER, Container Ships

    Nolan/Eckman Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Joe Zucker.

    On view will be a series of seascapes depicting ships of unfurling canvases and wooden crates in tightly packed grids. In essence Zucker makes an artwork built of artworks and their containers, a process he implemented early in his career with paintings composed of cotton balls whose subjects reflected the history of cotton in the South. As he states, "Pictorial content is becomes an iconography to discuss the topography of painting." Through these densely painted and delicately nuanced watercolors, Zucker poses the following questions: what is the life of an artwork when it is inevitably placed in storage? Does the object have any meaning outside of the public eye?

    Each work n view is titled with a span of years—"80-85," for example—that group together phases of his continually changing series and styles. With no explicit narrative, the structural elements of the work become the central focus. The persistent mutability of water, its changing surfaces and undulating movements has been a theme the artist has revisited time and time again, Zucker's systematic logic remains constant as an ongoing inquiry into the status of modernist painting as simultaneously as a self-contained object as well as a vessel (to continue with the metaphor of seafaring) for thought and a highly idiosyncratic view of the world. Zucker's irrepressible knack for conveying experience and narrative in his work (he is a great storyteller) sparks a union between surface and image.

    Joe Zucker was born in 1941 and currently lives in Easthampton, NY. This is his fifth solo exhibition at Nolan/Eckman. Open Storage, a concurrent exhibition of recent paintings, will be on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery. A catalogue published in collaboration with Kasmin Gallery is available, with an essay by Linda Yablonsky.

    • Joe Zucker Confused Sea (1970 - 1975), 2005 watercolor and ink on paper 40 x 60 inches 101.6 x 152.4 cm
      Joe Zucker
      Confused Sea (1970 - 1975), 2005
      watercolor and ink on paper
      40 x 60 inches
      101.6 x 152.4 cm
    • Joe Zucker 1965-1970, 2005 watercolor and ink on paper 40 x 60 inches 101.6 x 152.4 cm
      Joe Zucker
      1965-1970, 2005
      watercolor and ink on paper
      40 x 60 inches
      101.6 x 152.4 cm
    • Joe Zucker 1995-2000, 2005 watercolor on paper 40 x 60 inches 101.6 x 152.4 cm
      Joe Zucker
      1995-2000, 2005
      watercolor on paper
      40 x 60 inches
      101.6 x 152.4 cm
    • Joe Zucker 2000-2005, 2005 watercolor on paper 40 x 60 inches 101.6 x 152.4 cm
      Joe Zucker
      2000-2005, 2005
      watercolor on paper
      40 x 60 inches
      101.6 x 152.4 cm
    • Joe Zucker My Chair #2, 2005 acrylic on canvas 37 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches (lid) 94.6 x 60.3 cm 36 x 23 1/2 inches (box) 91.4 x 59.7 cm
      Joe Zucker
      My Chair #2, 2005
      acrylic on canvas
      37 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches (lid)
      94.6 x 60.3 cm
      36 x 23 1/2 inches (box)
      91.4 x 59.7 cm
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      Joe Zucker by Chuck Close

      BOMB Magazine May 31, 2007
      Joe Zucker has consistently for over four decades been one of America's most innovative artists. His paintings are personal, quirky, idiosyncratic, and often puzzling. His imagery most often relates in...
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      Interview: Joe-in-a-Box by Terry Myers

      Modern Painters December 1, 2006
      Two years ago, Joe Zucker had three exhibitions in three New York galleries. These not only put him firmly back on the perpetually shifting artworld map but also introduced many...
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    • Joe Zucker: Open Storage: New Paintings / Container Ships

      Joe Zucker: Open Storage: New Paintings / Container Ships

      2006
      Hardcover 54, 30 color ill., 2 photographs pages
      Publisher: David Nolan Gallery and Paul Kasmin Gallery
      Dimensions: 10.25 x 10.25 in
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      JOE ZUCKER

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