"The Global Village - Artists of East Hampton & Eastern Long Island", Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, April 14 - May 27, 2001

"The Global Village" is funded by Giuppy Nantista, an East Hampton philanthropist who established an endowment for a series to show the work of younger artists. The majority of participants were born in the '50s, with two born in the early '60s. It inclueds Howard Clifford, Peter Dayton, Michael Holman, Christa Maiwald, Rima Mardoyan-Smyth, Dan Rizzie, Peter Sabbeth, Mike Solomon and Gavin Zeigler.

Gavin Zeigler's acrylic paintings are built on layers of objects such as bank checks, keys, obsolete stock certificates, and pennies, as in "Composition in Blue." He paints over the pennies on a wood panel and sands down to produce intriguing glints through the embedded surface, grid-like , in pattern. The pennies trap the paint in their edges and crevices, at the same time imbuing the piece with texture and sheen.

With the contrast of a patterned vertical stroke at the lower part of the painting creating a kind of horizon, the picture reminds us of our favorite Louis Armstrong song, "Pennies From Heaven."

In others, the surface consists of keys, treated in a similar manner. Whether the artist is painting over coins, keys, or stock-certificates, the composition is always determined by a grid-like composition. His works depict variety within repetition. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of symbolism here: the artist is concerned more with formal problems. Titles like "Failure in the System" hint at social commentary in only the most allusive way.

1999 "New Paintings" Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA. Curated by Joanna Miller.
1997 "Subterfuge" Paintings, Kenneth Winslow Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Gallery MAC, New York, NY. Selected by Raina Larnkins-Fielder, New Museum of Contemporary Art; Rick Long, School of Visual Arts; Sarah O'Connell, The Brooklyn Museum of Art.
1997 "Submersion" New Paintings, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Elaine WechsIer.
1995 "Recent Work" Physick Estate / Cape May County Art League, Cape May, N.J. Curated by Neal McPheeters.

2001 "Global Village" The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY. Curated by Simon Taylor. Illustrated Catalogue.
2001 Lizan Tops Art Gallery, East Hampton, NY.
2000 Memphis Arts Festival, Memphis, TN. Juror: Sandra Blain, Art Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2000 Texas Fine Arts Association, New American Talent, Fifteenth Exhibition. Juror: David Pagel, Los Angeles-based Critic and Curator. Illustrated Catalogue.
2000 Hilton Head Art League National Juried Show, The Walter Greer Gallery. Hilton Head, SC.
2000 Gallery Bershad, 2000 (or Less). Curated by Roland Smart. Somerville, MA.
1999 Savannah College of Art and Design, Juried Fine Arts Competition, Savannah, GA. Juror: Paul Gordon Schimmel, Chief Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 50th Annual Exhibition, New Canaan, CT. Juried by Allan Stone, Director of the Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 19th Annual Faber Birren National Color Show, Stamford, CT. Juror: Susan Cross of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
1999 Artforms Gallery National Juried Show, Philadelphia, PA. Juror: Ivan Karp, Director of the OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 The Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. Curated by Hank T. Foreman, Director of the Catherine J. Smith Gallery, Boone, NC.
1999 New Arts Program Invitational Exhibition of Small Works, Kutztown, PA.-
1998 The 1 Ith Annual Art Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN. Juror: Donald Kuspit, Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Recipient of exhibition award.
1998 Cambridge Art Association National Show, Cambridge, MA. Juror: Malcolm Rogers, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1998 New Arts Program Invitational Exhibition of Small Works, Kutztown, PA.
1998 Wainscott Gallery Group Exhibition, Wainscott, NY. Curated by Maggie Nolan, Director of International Art Management, East Hampton, NY.
1998 International Group Exhibition, East Hampton, NY. Curated by Maggie Nolan, Director of International Art Management. East Hampton, NY.
1997 Montclair State University Art Galleries National Juried Exhibition of Small Works, Upper Montclair, NJ. Juror: William Zimmer, Art Critic, The New York Times.
1997 17th Annual Faber Birren National Color Show, Stamford, CT. Juror: Naomi Urabe of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1997 "The Altered Image," The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Juror: Anne Cohen DePietro, curator, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.
1997 Abstraction '97 - Part 11, The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY. Juror: Catherine Valenza, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY.
1997 Memphis Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibit, Memphis, TN. Juror: Carl Solway, Director and President of the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, OH.
1996 New Arts Program Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, Kutztown, PA.
1996 Bailey House's Ninth Annual Auction Invitational Exhibit, New York, NY.
1996 The 31 st Annual Open Exhibition, The Fine Arts Institute of the San Bernadino County Museum, Redlands, CA. Juror: Elizabeth A.T. Smith, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), CA.
1996 Second Annual East Hampton Visual Arts Festival, East Hampton, NY. Juror: Mary-Jean Huntley of the Philadelphia Museum, PA.
1996 San Diego Art Institute 41 st Annual 1996 International Juried Exhibition, San Diego, CA. Juror: Peter Frank, curator, lecturer and editor, Visions Art Quarterly; art critic, L.A. Weekly and Long Beach Press Telegram.
1996 "Small Works" Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, New York, NY. Juror: Edward Thorp of the Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1996 The Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Fourteenth Annual Juried Exhibition, Hempstead, NY. Juror: Dr. Robert Myron, professor of Art History at Hotstra University, NY.
1996 "Second Annual National Juried Small Works Christmas Exhibition," Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Marisol (Escobar).
1996 Bailey House's Ninth Annual Auction Invitational Exhibit, New York, NY.
1995 "First Annual Juried Small Works Christmas Exhibition" Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Ivan Karp, Director of the OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY. Received first place award out of 87 selected works.
1983 - 87 Exhibited with The Collector's Gallery, Inc., Nashville, TN.
1982 "The Annual Tennessee All-State Juried Artist Exhibition" Parthenon Galleries, Centennial Park, Nashville, TN.

Lordi, Heather M., ed. Who's Who in American Art. Reed Elsevier Inc. 23rd edition. New Providence: New Jersey, 1999.
Weitzman, Erica, ed. The Williarn and Mary Review, Illustrations, Volume 35,1997.
H. I. Gliick, Publisher. New American Painting , Illustrations, Book No. 10. Open Studio Press Guild 1997 New York City Competition. Juror: Ivan Karp, Director of the OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY. June 1997.

Donald Kuspit: Exhibition Award 1998
Ivan Karp: 1 st Place Award 1995

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May 3, 1998 Braff, Phyllis Subjective andAbstract Flow in Many Directions. The New York Times, Volume CXLVII Number 51,146, Section 14, p. 24.
April 3, 1998 Weiss, Marion Wolberg, Art Commentary. Dan's Papers, Volume XXXVIII Number 1, p. 38.
March 26, 1998 Hirickle, Annette International Group Show in Wainscott. Illustration. The Sag Harbor Express, Volume 139 Number 37, p. 9.
1997 Jacobs, Qa'id. Touchable Art: A Profile of Gavin Zeigler. Plug-In (www.plug-in.com).
October 23, 1997 Hinkle, Annette. Sag Harbor Artist Zeigler in Juried Exhibit. The Sag Harbor Express, Volume 139 Number 15, p. 8.
October 23,1997 Sansegundo, Sheridan. In the Galleries. The East Hampton Star, Volume CX Number II, Section III, p. 6.
August 10, 1995 Zeigler's Paintings Featured in Display. Illustration. The Lebanon Democrat.
August 4, 1995 Divergent artists to exhibit works at Art League. Cape Island Voice.
August 3, 1995 Divergent artists to exhibit works at Art League. Cape May Star and Wave.
November 1988 Kent, Jonathan. Bunn Gray, Nashville's Renaissance Man. The Monocle, Volume 1, Number 3, pp. 10- 11.
May 18, 1982 FHS student finalist in art competition. Illustration. The Review-Appeal, p. 5.

1962 born in Nashville, TN
1990 - 94 BA Art History, Fordham University, New York, NY.
1988 Certificate Program, Graphic Arts, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
Lives in Sag Harbor and New York

June – August 2014 Telfair Museums' Jepson Center opens a new exhibition, curated by Courtney McNeil, which consists of notable small sculptures from the Museum's permanent collection. This exhibit will include artwork by Gavin Zeigler, Conrad Marca-Relli, Dorothy Dehner, and Elaine Grove. The museum describes George Gavin Zeigler’s bronze sculpture “Angular Presence, 2/6” as a compact and powerful bronze composed of symmetrical groupings of geometric forms.

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