Atlas Trilogy & Other Paintings
Mark Zimmermann 09.17.2015 - 11.01.2015 Narthex Gallery
This installation is presented by Midtown Arts Common in cooperation with Saint Peter's.
About the artist
Mark Zimmermann, an American artist and writer, was born to a military family in Munich, Germany, in 1967 and grew up in Hawaii and the southern United States. Since 1998, he has exhibited his paintings in fifteen solo shows and numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.
In 2000, Zimmermann became the first American artist to exhibit in a commercial gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2009, he was commissioned to create of suite of monumental paintings for the VIP Lounge of the Palazzo Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2010, he was photographed by Andres Serrano, in a project documenting New York artists. Most recently, Zimmermann has been the subject of two short films by the Los Angeles documentarian,
Eric Minh Swenson, “Mark Zimmermann: Color as Metaphor” and “Mark Zimmermann: Union: A Love Letter to My Wife.”
As a writer, he has widely published poetry and short fiction, as well as essays and critical works on painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, theatre, and film throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. His writing has been translated into six languages. He lives and works in New York City and the San Fernando Valley of California.
