Don Zurlo (b. 1934), a resident of Lexington, S.C., is a mostly non-objective painter whose work touches on Color Field painting, a controlled form of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
Among the venues where Zurlo has exhibited since the 1960s are the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN; the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ; the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, NJ; the Flint Institute of Art in Flint, MI; the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Viridian Artists and the Howard Wise Gallery, both in New York City; Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, FL; South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, SC; and if ART Gallery in Columbia, SC. Among Zurlo’s solo exhibitions are those at Columbia College in Columbia, SC; Douglass College in New Brunswick, NJ; Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA; and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, SC.
As an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Zurlo studied with Allan Kaprow; he also completed his MFA at Rutgers. Zurlo taught at South Carolina State University from 1973 to 1978, and at Allen University in Columbia, SC, from 1989 to 1999.
Zurlo's paintings are available from if ART Gallery, (803) 238-2351 / wroefs@sc.rr.com
