NYAB Event - George Schneeman “Zig Zag Jag”

George Schneeman “Zig Zag Jag”

Pavel Zoubok Gallery

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For over forty years, New York artist GEORGE SCHNEEMAN painted iconic portraits of his family and friends both on canvas and in fresco. Concurrently, he created numerous collages from evocative fragments of printed ephemera, as well as little-known collage copies, intimate paintings on panel directly quoting the collages. These intimately scaled works juxtapose two principle elements in what can be read as a form of visual poetry. Not coincidentally, Schneeman had profound ties to prominent poets of the second-generation New York School such as Ron Padgett, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Ann Waldman, Larry Fagin, Maureen Owen, Michael Brownstein, among others. These friendships resulted in numerous collaborations across disciplines. Schneeman s work reflects the enduring spirit of Pop Art and its fundamental connection to language, placing him squarely in the pantheon of artists such as Joe Brainard, Ray Johnson, Jess and others.

Running simultaneously, from April 22 to September 20, 2014, is the first major retrospective of George Schneeman s work, A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman, at Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 as well as Face Value, a group exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, which includes the artist s double portrait of poets Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan. For more information on the Poets House click here: http://www.poetshouse.org

George Schneeman s work has been exhibited since the late 1960s, with solo exhibitions at Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, the CUE Art Foundation, New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco, among others. His work is in numerous private and public collections including the Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York and the Berkeley Art Museum, California. He was the recipient of numerous grants, including the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund for Poetry grant for his numerous collaborations with poets. This is the first solo exhibition of George Schneeman s work at Pavel Zoubok Gallery.

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