Joe Zucker's Color Constructions

Stephen Westfall · Art in America
Joe Zucker has been a synthesizing original right from the outset. The homespun quality of his materials and processes reveals, rather than masks, a keen formal and historical sensibility, while also serving his devastating wit and cold eye for high-art academicism. The triple-gallery survey that unfolded in New York over this past winter was one of the principal events of the season, with GBE (Modern), formerly Gavin Brown's Enterprise, restoring a somewhat neglected body of painting to its deserved foreground position in the pioneering New Image movement, Paul Kasmin unveiling a surprising group of new paintings and Nolan/Eckman offering an extended tour of a hilarious selection of recent works on paper, buttressed by some earlier drawings and watercolors.
May 1, 2004