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Zio Ziegler

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Artist teaching design at @stanford

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It’s tempting to assume there’s not still art studios on hilltops with dried paint on all the door handles and 30 foot sculptures covered in spider webs guarding the front door. The good news is art is alive and well and @zioziegler is living proof. Frames from our latest with Almine Rech. taken in Aspen, Colorado by @zioziegler

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12 days ago

Very thankful for the opportunity to get to work with my friend @shaffernickel on this short film for my show at @alminerech .

I’m also so appreciative to Elaine Pagels for taking the time to talk about my paintings and be featured in this video .
‘The Tesseract is on view through October 21, 2026.

#paintings #alminerech #contemporayart by @zioziegler

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15 days ago

Now available – Coinciding with 'The Tesseract' Zio Ziegler’s (@zioziegler) fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Almine Rech Editions is pleased to announce the release of four limited-edition etchings by the artist.

Translating the artist’s fundamental distillation and reconstruction of forms onto paper, each piece is hand-printed in black ink from a hard-ground etched copper plate onto Arches mould-made paper.

This exclusive collaboration is now available on the Almine Rech Editions website.

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#zioziegler #alminerech #limitededitionprint #etchings taken in Almine Rech Gallery - New York by @zioziegler

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16 days ago

Like Foucault’s pendulum, which moves in an ellipse as it oscillates between its outer limits, Zio Ziegler’s ‘The Tesseract’ swings the viewer in whirling, elliptical fashion from one aesthetic mode to another. From the thickly patterned world of his monumental and maximalist pictures, to the exploratory mark making of his skeletal monochrome canvases. And from the visceral and layered forms of his so-called “Essential Figures,” to his similarly totemic three-dimensional figures whose dynamism he has stilled in bronze. Four modes, four artistic voices, four variations on a theme, each one giving rise to— yet also putting a kind of gravitational pressure on—the next.
What holds the center in Ziegler’s vibrant pictorial system, however, is not a single point but a space laden with enduring possibility. It is a window through which we look out onto an unnamed future, from a present reality that is (as he declares) “far too dense for any single voice to hold.” In the dynamic, even combustible, interplay between these four opposing aesthetic structures, Ziegler seeks to spark a new way of thinking. Resisting the homogenizing consensus that AI systems seem hellbent on producing among their human users, Ziegler suggests that we need a diverse visual language for self-reflection, as we continue to reckon with new intelligences we have built but have yet to understand.
— Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Ph.D., The George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum

#paintings #zioziegler #maximalism #contemporaryart by @zioziegler

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20 days ago

Some installation shots of the Tesseract, now open until Oct 21 at Almine Rech.
Thank you so much to the entire Almine Rech Team @alminerech, as well as @jrmcurator for an amazing essay, @kt.evans / @cowpiepress for printing and facilitating the etchings, and to everyone who came to the opening!
I am grateful for all of the support and kindness, thank you!
Thank you! by @zioziegler

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24 days ago

It’s been about a decade since my last print so I decided to make four etchings as part of my exhibition “The Tesseract” with Almine Rech.
The prints were made with @cowpiepress and each is an edition of ten. For more info please contact @alminerech !

#etching #printmaking by @zioziegler

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a month ago

The Tesseract opens at Almine Rech in New York, Sept 16th

This Bronze will be included in the exhibition!

Those Who Go, 2026
Cast bronze
115 x 60 x 65 cm
45 1/4 x 23 5/8 x 25 5/8 in by @zioziegler

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I started making these tightly patterned paintings nearly eighteen years ago in my studio in Providence, Rhode Island, when I would take the Peter Pan bus into New York just to see exhibitions. Getting to finally show them there with Almine Rech feels like the realization of a very old dream.

The paintings use pattern, psychedelic imagery, and foundational religious myths to make sense of a moment that feels increasingly difficult to understand - one which is caught somewhere between the old world and whatever comes next.

The Tesseract
Almine Rech, New York
September 16–October 21
Hope to see you there.

#studio #painting #thedescentfromthecross by @zioziegler

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a month ago

Some thoughts about my painting: The Self Reinforcing Myth of “I” , which will be included in my upcoming Show at Almine Rech in New York, opening September 16th! All are welcome!

#studio #painting #artist by @zioziegler

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When I started thinking about the theme of expulsion, it was a few years ago. I kept reading books like The Fourth Turning and Dalio’s The Changing World Order, and saw that we were inevitably being ushered into a new age. Some of these changes might be cyclical, but there’s something about the collective loss of innocence that I found to be an interesting theme. That led me to Ovid, then the Bible, and eventually to obsessing over the paintings of Masaccio.

Above is what I call a synthetic figure - a distillation and compression of every form of expulsion, reduced into a pictograph that can travel without context as a language form.

The Tesseract: The Expulsion - contains four expressions built around this same idea of expulsion, this synthetic figure is one of them.

Opening Sept 16 at @alminerech in Tribeca. by @zioziegler

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2 months ago

Opening soon in New York: The Tesseract - the expulsion from the garden.
Pictured above is one of the four voices I’ve included in my upcoming show. This series, titled Reality Engines after Donald Hoffman’s “A Case against reality” - include the bare essential amount of visual information for your brain to make a conclusion about what it is seeing. Often these pictures try to sit right under that visual threshold, hopefully making us question all of the assumptions and gap filling which we are constantly practicing.
Depicted here is a reduced form of the expulsion from the garden, two figures exiting the gate. The expulsion theme seems to be an effective allegory for today’s global transition, from a state of seaming disconnected innocence to a new world order.

Mind’s Eye: 02, 2026
Oil on Canvas
182.9 x182.9 x 4.4cm

#alminerech #zioziegler #studiovisit #thetesseract by @zioziegler

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2 months ago

In the lead-up to ‘The Tesseract’, Zio Ziegler’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view at Almine Rech New York from September 16 - October 21, 2026, step inside the artist’s studio to discover his creative process.
Continue watching the full video on the gallery’s YouTube channel!

@zioziegler

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‘You have to be there for it to happen, to bring something to life, hopefully. Some get further and longer than others, some start to entangle, some die off and stay short and you’re left with this thing that forms a wandering path.’ — Zio Ziegler

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A film by Shaffer Nickel
©️ Zio Ziegler - Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech
All rights reserved

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#ZioZiegler #StudioVisit #AlmineRech taken in New York City, USA by @zioziegler

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