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Joe Zucker is known in contemporary
art circles for developing different
painting processes and incorporating
unusual materials. Some works result-
ing from his innovation have been
described as minimalist, but the artist
prefers the term conceptual.
Zucker, who will have about 10
varied projects on view March 7-April
19 at the Susanne Hilberry Gallery
in Ferndale, discusses his artistic

College for Creative Studies. His corn-
ments become less formal the next
evening, during the opening reception
at the gallery.
"See/Sea," the exhibit title, captures
his frequent attention to the themes
of water and vessel with one image
depicting ships common to the Great
Lakes. Everyday objects also fall into
his range of interest and are part of
the show.
"There's a literal foundation for my
work;' says Zucker, 66, explaining that
he usually tries to avoid expressing
emotions through his artistic output.
"It's certainly not about developing a
plastic painting style. It's about finding
types of paintings that have something
to say about specific ideas.
"I'm attracted to water scenes
because paint as a liquid reinforces the
image. Sometimes, the paintings are
involved in producing themselves, and
they become tools as well as objects
to see."
One gallery-revealed example of the
painting becoming the tool involves
an image of a table and chairs in a
crate. The paint was poured into the
various shapes making up the illusion
of a table or chair, and then the entire
structure was tipped so that each seg-
ment could get a different identity as
the paint dried.
"The painting became a reservoir
for paint," Zucker explains. "Depending
on how I angled the painting, it sort of
painted itself."
A related approach involves a large
image of a canoe. Made of pegboard
and plywood, the pegboard front is
pressed into the paint on the plywood,
and the color is extruded to create the
image of the boat.
In another technique, Zucker applies
color by using scrolls rolled through
paint instead of brushes.
"Over the years, I've tried to give
autonomous looks to my paintings,"
says Zucker, who works in a home
studio in New York State and currently
has a large-scale exhibit in Berlin.
"I like working large because a lot
of galleries are very large, and I have
to be aware of the installation aspect