Tim Zuck
{{Short description|Canadian artist (1947–2022)}}
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| birth_name = Timothy Melvin Zuck
| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|11|18}}
| birth_place = Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|27|1947|11|18}}
| death_place = Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
| nationality = American-born Canadian
| spouse = Robyn Randell
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| training = BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1971); MFA California Institute of the Arts (1972)
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Timothy Melvin Zuck (November 18, 1947 – November 27, 2022) was a Canadian painter of representational images{{sfn|Nasgaard|2008|p=353}} with an orientation towards abstraction{{cite book|last1=Murray |first1=Joan| title=Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century|date=1999|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=|location=Toronto|oclc=260193722|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/260193722|accessdate=2021-04-17}} and a tranquil atmosphere distilled from the world around him.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada He was also an educator.
Life
Timothy Melvin Zuck was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He attended Wilmington College, Ohio, from 1966-1967 and 1968-1969. At Wilmington, he majored in philosophy and psychology and studied art history and sculpture. For the year 1967-1968, he accompanied his parents in India as well as travelling on his own there.{{cite web |title=Tim Zuck fonds |url=https://ago.ca/sites/default/files/SC075.pdf |website=ago.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario E. P. Taylor Research Library and Archives |access-date=2021-07-18}} He has lived in Canada since 1969.{{cite web|title=Artist/Maker Name "Zuck, Tim"|url=http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app%3Bjsessionid=4BA103469FBB302066B2D19C815C9856?rID=17848&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1118&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|website=Canadian Heritage Information Network|accessdate=14 September 2015}} He earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in 1971 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1972.
After completing his graduate studies, Zuck returned to NSCAD in late 1972, and taught in the school until 1979. In 1975, he began to focus on small paintings as a reaction to the prevailing concept-oriented art at NSCAD. He has exhibited extensively in Canada since the 1970s, and has also shown in the United States and Japan. In 1997-1998, a major two-part exhibition was organized collaboratively by the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, which held a retrospective of drawings titled Tim Zuck: Still Life in Landscape, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, which presented an overview of his paintings titled Tim Zuck: A Decade of Painting.
Zuck taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design from 2002 and was awarded Professor Emeritus status in 2015.{{cite web|last1=Alberta College of Art and Design|title=Minutes of the Board of Governors, May 20, 2015|url=https://www.acad.ca/sites/default/files/Documents/2015_05_20_SIGNED_BOG_Meeting_minutes.pdf|accessdate=18 July 2017}} Zuck died in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on November 27, 2022, at the age of 75.{{cite web |title=Tim Zuck (1947–2022) |url=https://www.gallerieswest.ca/news/tim-zuck-1947-2022/ |website=Galleries West |access-date=19 October 2023}}
Work
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, his images of boats, houses and people expanded into a wider range of forms that concerned him. He is sometimes associated with the New Image painters such as Eric Fischl. His work is included in such major public collections as the National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario; McMichael Canadian Art Collection; Vancouver Art Gallery; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; the Mendel Art Gallery; the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; and the Canada Council Art Bank. His work is represented by the Barbara Edwards Gallery in Toronto. Zuck's archives are held by the E. P. Taylor Research Library and Archives at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Cook |editor-first1=Ramsay |title=Tim Zuck: Paintings and Drawings |date=1997 |publisher=Altitude Publishing Ltd. |location=Canmore|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aZuck+Tim/azuck+tim/1%2C1%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=azuck+tim+1947&5%2C%2C5 |access-date=2021-07-29}}
- {{cite book |last1=Nasgaard |first1=Roald |title=Abstract Painting in Canada |year=2008 |pages=353–354|publisher=Douglas & McIntyre|isbn=9781553653943 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-18mk0_QWjoC |accessdate=2020-08-13}}
- {{cite book |title=Tim Zuck: Learning to Talk |date=2002 |publisher= Museum London |location= London, Ontario|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aZuck%2C+Tim/azuck+tim/1%2C1%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=azuck+tim+1947&4%2C%2C5 |access-date=2021-07-29}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015135/http://media.www.theconcordian.com/media/storage/paper290/news/2003/01/15/Entertainment/Artist.Tim.Zuck.Learns.To.Talk-345512.shtml?sourcedomain=www.theconcordian.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com The Concordian]
- [http://www.jottings.ca/carol/zuck.html ArtsAtlantic, 11, 1981]
- [http://www.artnet.com/artist/18465/tim-zuck.html Artnet]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060323064919/http://www.abcartbookscanada.com/zukt.html ABC Artbooks]
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Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:Canadian male painters
Category:21st-century Canadian painters
Category:American emigrants to Canada
Category:Artists from Erie, Pennsylvania
Category:NSCAD University alumni
Category:20th-century Canadian male artists