I have always felt that we exist in a vastly larger and truer world than we experience day to day. I want to pierce the veil, to wake up. Painting is one of the ways that I attempt that. It is a continual dive into the mystery, gradually trusting more and more that plumbing these depths will take me by surprise and help me to live in the question, to know that I don't know.

My process is an intuitive conversation, a dialog, a call and response. My work is psychological and spiritual. It has surrealist and expressionist roots. I have recently started to leave behind overt narrative and am moving toward a more ambiguous biomorphic abstraction.

My paintings almost always turn out to be narratives describing human struggle and living within paradox and duality.

Robert Zurer is a native New Yorker who has lived and worked in New York City all his life. Very recently he relocated to Philadelphia where he now maintains his studio practice. 

He has been drawing and painting since he was a child. He is primarily self-taught although he did study privately for some years with the painter Wade Schuman. He has been an active member of the NYC Crit Club since its inception in 2017. 

His work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in and around New York. He has also been shown in Nashville, New Haven, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Grand Rapids, Philadelphia and Edinburgh, Scotland.