Robert Zurer
Robert Zurer, 'Amidst the Wild', 2025, oil on linen, 30.5 x 35.5cm
Robert Zurer makes oil paintings. Comprised of figurative and abstract biomorphic forms, they are intuitive and process-driven. He begins with random or automatic gestures and without external source material or a preconceived idea or plan. Focused on becoming open to the process, and paying close attention, He awaits a dialog with the painting, a call and response. It feels like an impulse or message coming into me from the outside, perhaps from our collective unconscious. In the final stages, an open-ended narrative emerges that almost always describes our human condition – the existential struggle between body and soul.
ROBERT ZURER (b. 1948, New York, NY)
Zurer is primarily self-taught, although from 1999 to 2006 he attended weekly private group classes with the painter and teacher Wade Schuman. Zurer has also been an active member of the NYC Crit Club since its inception in 2017. In 2022 he was accepted into the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. In 2023 he was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and in 2025 a resident at Byrdcliffe.
His work is held in private collections and has been exhibited in numerous group shows in and around New York. He has also been shown in Nashville, New Haven, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Grand Rapids, Philadelphia and Edinburgh, Scotland.