About the Artist
Why I paint. . .
I paint in oil, egg tempera or gouache—pictures of everyday creatures, places and people swimming in light. I see each image as an ode to a present moment. I grew up in a house full of books and art, but with little said about how to make them or why. So I wrote and painted to find out. From a young age I was addicted to putting words and images on paper. Why? Because the process always revealed what was true or beautiful. And like the poet John Keats said, 'All the rest is noise.' In college I majored in English and minored in art: words and images. Intent on capturing light in ‘plein air,’ I chased it with a view camera across southern Maine and the Piedmont hills of North Carolina. I moved to Colorado for a graduate degree in Creative Writing, and spent my free time in the art department, learning life drawing and intaglio printmaking. Over the next decades I wrote professionally for print, radio, and TV. . . and I painted. Gradually I learned to shape pigment on canvas into an illusion of light moving through space. And I began to place work in galleries and private collections. Having lived most of my life in the West, I spend part of each summer in southern Maine. Whether the subject is a metal rowboat on a lakeside embankment, or two women talking on a High-Country portal, my intent is always the same: to create an image that moves beyond word and thought to a felt sense of moment. Thanks for looking.
Ed Zorensky
Selected Shows
2025
17th Plein Air Painters of New Mexico National Juried Members Show, Legends of the West Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2024
16th Plein Air Painters of New Mexico National Juried Show, Legends of the West Gallery, Santa Fe, NM,
Jeffrey Potter Memorial Award
Plein Air Painters of New Mexico "Paint New Mexico," Weems Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Works on Paper National Show, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ
2018
Rocky Mountain National Water Media Show, Center for the Arts, Evergreen, CO
Winter is Coming, Framed Image, Denver, CO
2017
Albuquerque Museum Foundation Miniatures & More Invitation, Albuquerque, NM
Pike's Peak International Water Media Show, Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
Rocky Mountain National Water Media Show, Center for the Arts, Evergreen, CO
Fifty Shades of Green, Framed Image, Denver, CO
2015
Four-Artist Show, Elements 5280 Gallery, Greenwood Village, CO
2014
Annual Juried Exhibition for Non-Members, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Solo Show, Racine's, Denver, CO
2013
Summer Invitational, Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT
2012
Maynard Dixon Country Annual Show, Mt. Carmel, UT
Plein Air Artists of Colorado 16th Annual Juried Show, Wilder Nightingale Gallery, Taos, NM
All Colorado Show, Curtis Arts and Humanities, Englewood, CO
Miniatures Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
2011
Expressions West, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Solo Show, Denver Athletic Club, Denver, CO
Best & Brightest, Scottsdale Artist School, Scottsdale, AZ
2010
Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Collegiate Range Solo Show, Bell Gallery, Denver, CO
East & West, Solo Show, Denver Athletic Club
ArtReach Dine & D’Art, Denver, CO
2009
Plein Air Expanded, Republic Plaza, Denver, CO,
National Juried Show, Englewood Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO
Summer Art Market, Art Students League of Denver
2006
Colorado Artists Guild Annual Show, Denver Botanic Gardens, Best in Show
Louisville Arts Festival, Louisville Art Association, Louisville, CO, 2nd Place
Lines into Shapes, Art Center of Estes Park
All Colorado Juried Show, Littleton Fine Arts Guild, Littleton, CO
Education
M.A., Ph.D., University of Denver
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
