JOHN ZURIER/ LARRY ABRAMSON October 1- November 1, 2022 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings byJohn Zurier. This exhibition of John Zurier's reductive, near-monochrome paintings demonstrates his continued involvement with color, the material fact of painting and painting's history. His soft-hued abstract printings play at crossing the line into representation. Filled with the sensation of nature, they evoke the silence of luminous weather and the pulse of a human touch. In The Guardian, London critic Adrian Searle writes, Zurier's layers of thin oil, his submerged brushstrokes, his carefully tuned colour notes and diffused fields might make us think of the status and appeal of images on the verge of coalescence, or equally, on the brink of disappearance. For a series of smaller paintings, Zurier selects handmade canvases imported from Russia. The artist entitles the series "Oblaka", the Russian word for clouds. These pre-stretched supports of rough canvas carry for Zurier the aura of the Russian avant-garde, of Malevich and Rozanova. Their intimate size, pre-determined proportions, informal priming and primitive presence, provide the ground for Zurier's exploration of the singular act of painting. John Zurier lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Recent exhibitions include: Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England, 2003; Oblaka, Peer Trust, London, England, 2003; John Zurier, Robert Ryman, Joseph Marioni: Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002; Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2002. A fully illustrated catalog, John Zurier, 1998-2000, published by Gallery Paule Anglim, containing an interview with Lawrence Rinder, is available. Image: John Zurier, Oblaka 75, 2002, Oil on linen , 24" x 18" Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings by Larry Abramson. "1906" is a new cycle of work made by Abramson during his recent residency at the San Francisco Art Institute, in spring 2003. In these charcoal on paper drawings, tentatively based upon photographs of the aftermath of San Francisco's earthquake and fire of 1906, destruction and collapse have become the ground for growth and invention. The central piece in the exhibition is an edge-to-edge wall-size drawing (approx. 7'x10') of a pile of San Francisco rubble. For the past two years Abramson has been working on his "Piles" series of large- scale drawings of ruins, based primarily on demolition sites in Jerusalem, where he lives. These works have been shown recently in Tel Aviv and are planned to be shown in their entirety in 2004 at the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrueck, Germany. Larry Abramson was born in 1954 and has been exhibiting since the late 1970's. He has had solo-exhibitions in Israel (Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1989, Tel Aviv Museum, 1993, Haifa Museum, 2001), New York (Bertha Urdang Gallery, 1978 and 1980), Dusseldorf (Hubertus Wunschik Gallery, 1994), and San Francisco (Refusalon Gallery, 1999, Paule Anglim Gallery, 2001). He has exhibited extensively in group shows and international events around the world, among them the Sao Paolo Biennale (1984) and the Venice Biennale (1986). From 1984 to 2002 Abramson taught art at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, where he served as Chairman of the Fine Art Department. He is currently Professor of Art at the Shenkar College in Ramat Gan, and was guest-lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and 2003. A reception for the artists will be held Thursday, October 2nd from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the gallery.