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ZEUXIS was founded by Phyllis Floyd and several of her painter colleagues in her New York City loft in 1994. As Floyd recalls:

 

In the 90's sometime, I began to assess the condition of still life painting in the climate of the post modernist art world. The patient did not seem healthy, and prospects looked bleak.

I hunted down as many good still life painters as I could with the object of mounting a group exhibition. Many of those artists remain in Zeuxis: Drabkin, Cox, Kennedy, Mansdorf, Barber, Byrne, and Biggins.

In 1996 I found a venue at Kohn, Pederson, Fox. It was a large, but rather poorly lit, space in the Steinway Building on 57th Street, and there was room for guests including Lennart Anderson, Nell Blaine, Stuart Shils, and James Lechey. The needed assistance materialized somehow, and we managed somewhat clumsily to mount the show with the usual amount of argument and complaining that such cooperative projects engender. But the large opening was exhilarating, and Zeuxis was on its way.

Since then, Zeuxis exhibitions have appeared in over forty commercial galleries, museums, and college exhibition spaces across the country. These shows have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Observer, and numerous other publications.

 

To increase the interest and variety of the exhibitions, Zeuxis usually specifies themes for upcoming shows. Zeuxis also routinely asks outside artists to participate in shows; over the years these guest artists have included such noted painters as Lennart Anderson, William Bailey, Leland Bell, Nell Blaine, Lois Dodd, Paul Georges, Jane Freilicher, Albert Kresch, Gabriel Laderman, Robert de Niro, Sr., Louisa Matthiasdottir, Wayne Thiebaud, and many others.