New York Painter John Zinsser Gives a Lecture
October 9, 2009
John Zinsser, New York-based abstract painter and co-founder of the Journal of Contemporary Art, will give a free public lecture, “The Fate of Abstraction,” at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, October 19, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Zinsser will critically define “iconic” examples of 20th century works in order to discuss how today’s younger practitioners have reacted to this tradition in radical and redefining ways. The Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series sponsors Zinsser’s lecture.
After graduating from Yale University in 1983, Zinsser began exhibiting his paintings in New York. Frustrated by what he saw as an absence of dialogue between artists with different styles and viewpoints, he started the Journal of Contemporary Art in 1988 with media artist Philip Pocock, devoting the magazine to interviews of artists. He has written extensively for such publications as Art in America, ARTS, New Art International, ArtNet and ACME Journal and is the author of Continuous Model: The Paintings of David Row. Zinsser is a contributing editor for Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review and the Brooklyn Rail.
Zinsser currently maintains a studio in an old pencil factory in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Represented by James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, N.Y., Zinsser is a veteran of more than 30 solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe and is represented in public and private collections including the Mint Museum, Charlotte, Va.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.; and Sammlung Goetz, a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany.
Contact: Contact: Ann Shostrom, ams26@psu.edu