NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents Pier and Ocean, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Robert Zandvliet opening Thursday, February 3rd at Peter Blum Soho, 99 Wooster Street, New York. This will be Robert Zandvliet’s fourth solo exhibition with Peter Blum. The works in the exhibition Pier and Ocean represent a new direction in Zandvliet’s oeuvre. Since 2009 Zandvliet has been working on a series of large paintings made after art historical works from a diverse range of periods and styles, from Picasso to lesser-known artists. Zandvliet deconstructs each work and examines how the artist solved the issue at hand. He observes, for example, the way in which the artist worked through composition or brushstroke and he reconstructs the work using his own visual language. In this “