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Art exhibit: Sculptures, Drawings, Watercolors, & Prints
MACHINE – JOSEPH ZIRKER: Sculptures, Drawings, Watercolors, & Prints
Art is very important …it’s a deep reflection of life. It’s also a way of going beyond what you normally consider as reality. Reality is very deceptive. Reality is often what others decide it is for you. Art propels you beyond that … gives you a vision of your own depth …. What makes you alive. – Joseph Zirker
Many of us live in keen anticipation for retirement in our sixties. Not artists. For them, as long as they can hold a brush, click a camera shutter or pull an impression of a print, their creativity continues strengthened by their years of experience and knowledge. So it is with Joseph Zirker.
Now in his nineties, Zirker continues his distinguished career of invention, innovation and artistic originality. With certain artists later in their careers such as Cezanne, Picasso, and Guston; they embarked upon a “don’t give a damn,” period when their art shifted into an expressionistic style signifying emotional freedom. Joseph Zirker has also tossed convention to the winds as he lets his art speak truth to power in this unsettled world.
Joseph Zirker has always melded his abstracted compositions with aspects of observed reality. His elegant mechanistic and robotic monotypes created in an array of subtle blacks, grays, and blues belie his apprehension about the increasing domination of technology in our time at the expense of simple humanity. Raymond Chandler poignantly observed, “Without magic there is no art. Without art there is no idealism. Without idealism there is no integrity. Without integrity there is nothing but production.” Zirker has spent his whole career expressing the magic of his imagination.
– Robert Flynn Johnson
Curator Emeritus, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
ADMISSION INFO
Free
Phone: 415 455 9733
Email: info@smithandersennorth.com
Website: http://smithandersennorth.com/exhibits/current_exhibits.html
Additional time info:
Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday: Noon - 5:00 pm, and by appointment
LOCATION
20 Greenfield Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960