Queens College Presents The Color of
                 Memory: 25 Years: An Exhibition of
               Paintings and Drawings by Alice Zinnes

The Queens College Art Center, located in the Art Library, on the 6th
floor of the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, is pleased to present, “The
Color of Memory: 25 Years: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings
by Alice Zinnes” from October 29 to December 23, 2002. The opening
reception will take place on Tuesday, October 29, from 5:00 to 8:00
p.m., with a gallery talk that same day by the artist from 5:00 to 6:00
p.m.

Provoked to visual explosions by poems and stories, Zinnes’s current
paintings contain the spirit of the storyteller in the guise of the abstract
adventurer. Not illustrations or literal translations, they are instead
transformations from poetry to mysterious landscapes of a dream world
inhabited by figure, animal and birdlike images. These paintings suggest
that the boundaries between underworld and waking life are traversable,
that terror coexists with joy, and that loss yields to renewal. In them, the
very sky descends to occupy the ground as fog, and then rises back to
its rightful place; tunnels simultaneously lead downward to a dark center,
and offer an opening and escape to the bright air above. Created with a
palette knife, the texture ranges from impasto to translucent glaze, from
areas scratched out to lines fluidly drawn in.

Before making these abstract paintings, Zinnes spent 15 years painting
directly from observation. In these paintings, the motif was a vehicle for
discovering painterly forms, movements and colors, which themselves
were metaphors for the combined experience of perception, memory,
mood and thought. These canvases, with their energetic brushstrokes of
sensuous color, their layered paint weaving in and out of interlocking,
even conflicting forms, reveal a watery, mysterious, musical, and
dreamlike world. In many ways, these landscapes relate directly to the
later abstract work. As Zinnes says, “Landscape and poetry are in my
bones and blood. When I painted from landscapes, the poetry seeped
through, and now when I paint from poems, the landscape remains my
anchor.”

For the first time, Zinnes’s representational and abstract work will be
exhibited together, at the Queens College Art Center, in the Benjamin S.
Rosenthal Library, from October 30 – December 23, 2002. The show
begins with her student years at The New York Studio School, and in the
MFA program at Queens College, and concludes with her current
abstract work.

Zinnes has had four solo exhibitions in New York City, as well as one-
person shows at Dartmouth and Swarthmore Colleges, and is
represented in many public and private collections. She has won awards
from the National Academy of Design, received fellowships from the
Virginia Center for the Arts, Cummington Community for the Arts, and a
full scholarship for study at The Skowhegan School. Currently she
teaches at Pratt Institute and New York City Technical College, CUNY.
She has given guest lectures and critiques throughout the country,
including at Dartmouth College, The New York Studio School, and The
National Academy of Design. Alice Zinnes was born in Norman,
Oklahoma, received her BA from Swarthmore College, and MFA from
Queens College, CUNY.

Gallery hours are Mondays to Thursdays, 9:00 am to 8:00 p.m., and
Fridays, 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m. The gallery will be closed November 28 and
29 for the Thanksgiving holiday. For more information, call 718 997-3770
or visit the Art Center’s website at:
{ HYPERLINK "http://www.qc.edu/Library/art/artcenter.html" }www.qc.edu/Library/art/artcenter.html.

Media Contact: Maria Matteo • Office: 718 997-5590 • Email: [log in to unmask]


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