John Zurier

His main interest is in simplicity, surface modulation, and color, as those are tied to people's experience of time.

His soft-hued abstract paintings play at crossing the line into representation with the sensation of nature, the silence of luminous weather, and the human touch.

Capturing qualities of light and weather effects,[7] Zurier employs a range of brushstrokes and surface treatments,[8] varying from revealing the texture of the canvas or obscuring it with layers of thick impasto.

[11][12] While minimal, Zurier's practice is not minimalist, but rather composed of quiet works that focus on the structure and possibilities of a brushstroke.

“I think the Japanese painter Ike No Taiga [1723–1776] was right,” Zurier has said, “the most difficult thing to achieve in painting is creating a space where absolutely nothing has been painted.”[13][14]