GERLIND ZEILNER
OPEN END
January 16 – February 27, 2021
Nino Mier Gallery is thrilled to announce its first solo exhibition with Austrian artist Gerlind Zeilner. The exhibition, Open end, will be on view in Los Angeles from January 16th to February 27th, 2021.
Approaching abstract figuration with a practice firmly rooted in documenting quotidian observations of metropolitan life and her own personal space, Zeilner’s drawings and paintings reflect both the artist’s external reality and internal psyche. Beginning with hand-drawn studies, Zeilner records her visual impressions as she navigates daily life while paying careful attention to the aesthetics of street activity, infrastructure, and social interactions in bars and cafes.
Already removed from their original context, Zeilner further liberates her gathered observations from their rigid material conventions in her painting studio where abstracted forms, oscillating between exterior and interior source material, merge to achieve images of altered realities. Underscoring this transformative process, the imagery often purposefully strays from specificity regarding exact locations or identities. Tracing Zeilner’s shifting perspectives and demonstrating the flexible relationship between objects and their environment, lines from the outside world coalesce with shapes observed from the interior of the studio. The forms of chairs, bottles, and plants inside the studio exert their influence on studies of the outer world and establish newly imagined settings.
Subverting cliched imagery and attitudes in the canon of art history established by paintings of café culture and social scenes traditionally dominated by masculinity, Zeilner restages these spaces as saloons filled with heroic and vibrant, Western-clad cowgirls. Modeled after women she admires, particularly other artists, writers, and intellectuals, Zeilner’s cowgirls represent a spirit of rebellion and gritty truthfulness absent of machismo.
Turning perspectives onto more personal environments, Zeilner’s expressive brushwork outlines the nuanced forms of seemingly banal objects, such as sugar packets or cigarettes, that despite making up the fabric of most daily routines, often go unnoticed until they are no longer available. Delineating these everyday objects in simple, colorful lines, Zeilner further emphasizes their shapes by rendering the remaining composition as undefined white space.
Gerlind Zeilner (b. 1971 in Mödling, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Zeilner’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz; Galerie Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece; and Tresor, Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna. Zeilner’s work will also be included an upcoming group exhibition at Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and has been included in exhibitions at Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna; and Albertina, Vienna.
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gerlind Zeilner
Tschick, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.019)
Gerlind Zeilner
Lauch
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
86 5/8 x 63 in
220 x 160 cm
(GZE20.002)
Gerlind Zeilner
Flow
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
86 5/8 x 63 in
220 x 160 cm
(GZE20.004)
Gerlind Zeilner
Zucker, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
86 5/8 x 63 in
220 x 160 cm
(GZE20.018)
Gerlind Zeilner
K und andere Cowgirls, 2015
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.008)
Gerlind Zeilner
Saloon Bar, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.023)
Gerlind Zeilner
1street, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
37 3/8 x 46 1/2 in
95 x 118 cm
(GZE20.020)
Gerlind Zeilner
Tschick, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.019)
Gerlind Zeilner
Zucker, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
86 5/8 x 63 in
220 x 160 cm
(GZE20.018)
Gerlind Zeilner
K und andere Cowgirls, 2015
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.008)
Gerlind Zeilner
Saloon Bar, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.023)
Gerlind Zeilner
1street, 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
37 3/8 x 46 1/2 in
95 x 118 cm
(GZE20.020)
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Installation View of Gerlind Zeilner: Open End (January 16–February 27, 2021)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gerlind Zeilner
Sperlsaloon, 2019
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
59 1/8 x 88 5/8 in
150 x 225 cm
(GZE20.011)
Gerlind Zeilner
Strasse (Street), 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
90 1/2 x 66 7/8 in
230 x 170 cm
(GZE20.005)
Gerlind Zeilner
Atelier, 2018
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.006)
Gerlind Zeilner
Hello K, 2019
Ink and colored pencil on paper
9 1/2 x 13 in
24 x 33 cm
(GZE20.014)
Gerlind Zeilner
Brooklyn, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
21 x 30 cm
(GZE20.015)
Gerlind Zeilner
Motel 2, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
21 x 30 cm
(GZE20.017)
Gerlind Zeilner
Untitled, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in
30 x 21 cm
(GZE20.016)
Gerlind Zeilner
Thessaloniki, 2019
Ink on paper
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
21 x 30 cm
(GZE20.022)
Gerlind Zeilner
Sperlsaloon, 2019
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
59 1/8 x 88 5/8 in
150 x 225 cm
(GZE20.011)
Gerlind Zeilner
Strasse (Street), 2020
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
90 1/2 x 66 7/8 in
230 x 170 cm
(GZE20.005)
Gerlind Zeilner
Atelier, 2018
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
63 x 86 5/8 in
160 x 220 cm
(GZE20.006)
Gerlind Zeilner
Hello K, 2019
Ink and colored pencil on paper
9 1/2 x 13 in
24 x 33 cm
(GZE20.014)
Gerlind Zeilner
Brooklyn, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
21 x 30 cm
(GZE20.015)
Gerlind Zeilner
Motel 2, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
21 x 30 cm
(GZE20.017)
Gerlind Zeilner
Untitled, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in
30 x 21 cm
(GZE20.016)