Tim Zuck is a painter and drawer with studios in both Southern and Northern Ontario and is currently teaching at Alberta College of Art & Design one semester a year.  Zuck studied in the United States, and India and earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.  His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions and collections internationally: Singapore, Japan, Korea, United States, and in Canada - National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario; McMichael Canadian Art Collection; Vancouver Art Gallery; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Glenbow Museum, Museum London.  

Tim Zuck’s career reflects a richly diverse body of work that resists easy classification. Painting and drawing both abstractly and realistically since the 70’s, his images include landscape, still life, and figurative works that are deceptively simple. Zuck sees all of his work as having abstract roots.  “In the world I don’t think there is “truth” and if I can analyze myself for a moment, I prefer things loose enough that I can circle around a subject, look at it from multiple perspectives, surround the thing and allow for all the various readings, connections and complexities that occur, a kind of visual gestalt working process.” Through selection and refinement, his paring down process invites the viewer to enter the quiet intimacy of a cup and its shadow, a ship and an anchor, and airplane wing, children’s blocks arranged on a table.