April 7 - May 26, 2006


Watercolors 1989-2006


Jerry Zeniuk

Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Watercolors, 1989-2006
by Jerry Zeniuk from April 7-May 26, 2006. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday April 7,
from 6-8 PM. 

The exhibition will present around twenty of Zeniuk's watercolors painted over a seventeen-year period, 
a selection made by the artist himself.



In contrast to his somber monochrome paintings of the 1970s, these watercolors make ready use of 
brilliant, high-key color, the immediacy of the works is intensified by their relatively large scale 
around twenty-by-thirty inches. Broad, freely applied horizontal strokes of color sweep across the 
paper's surface demonstrating the simplicity of Zeniuk's art and his control of the medium. 
And closer inspection reveals the carefully demarcated edges touching and overlapping each other, 
or exposing the bare paper.



Nonetheless, these works are not simply formal exercises in color and its management but rather an 
evocative manifestation of its expressive possibilities. As Zeniuk has written, "What I feel most 
strongly is that color is the shortest way to the heart, to feelings, to emotions. And emotions in 
turn lead us to meaning, which then allows for transcendence. In this way color leads the way to an 
understanding of life."


Austin Hill Vermont 1989 Summer
22-1/4 x 29-3/4 inches


N.Y.C. 1995
22-1/2 x 30-3/4 inches


NYC 2005
22-3/4 x 30 inches


Jerry Zeniuk, born 1945 in Bardowick bei Lüneburg, Germany, from 1950 in Loveland, Colorado, from 1969 in New York with residencies in Hamburg 1973/74 and Berlin 1977/78 (DAAD), from 1993 Professor of Painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, lives in New York and Munich. 

1990 Retrospective: Kunsthalle Bremen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 
         DAAD-Galerie, Berlin, Neue Galerie, Kassel 
1996 Kunsthalle Karlsruhe 
1997 Window Paintings Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne 
1999 Oil and Water (Retrospective), Kunstmuseum Wintertur, 
         Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 
         Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus, Neue Galerie, Kassel 
2000 Für vier Wände, Kunstverein Konstanz (with Thomas Bechinger) 
2001/2002 Claude Monet und die Moderne Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 
2002 Kunsthalle Bremerhaven 
2003 Aquarelle 1974-2003, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe 
2005 Universal Painting-Zeitgenössiche abstrakte Malerei aus China und Deutschland
         Guang Dong Art Museum, Guangzhou, Gallery of the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 
         Wuhan Duolun Museum, Shanghai
         Inneres Leuchten-Farbe als Malerie, Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle

For further information and photographs, please contact the gallery.

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