Scott Zieher is co-owner of the Chelsea contemporary art gallery ZieherSmith, established in 2003, with his wife Andrea. In 2004 he won the Emergency Press contest for his book-length poem, VIRGA. His second book-length poem, IMPATIENCE, was published by Emergency Press in 2009; and in February 2010, powerHouse Books published BAND OF BIKERS, a collection of found photographs from 1972. Emergency Press will publish Zieherโs third book-length poem, GENTRY, in 2011. Recent writing has appeared in The Believer, Jubilat, KNOCK, and The Iowa Review.
From the artist
โPart taxonomy and all impulse, my actual practice in making a collage is preoccupied with the search and subsequent reconfiguration.โ