on back cover: Past, 2017, 12 x 8 inches, watercolor on paper Joseph Zito was born in Brooklyn in 1957 and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1979. He had his first three solo exhibitions at Rosa Esman Gallery between 1988 and 1991, and this is his eighth exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg since 1993. An early pioneer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, he worked with curator Frederieke Taylor in using a raw industrial space to present three large group exhibitions called 55 Ferris Street in 1992 and 1993. His works have been included in numerous group shows in New York as well as in Rome, St Louis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Amherst, Segovia and Katonah. His work is included in collections including the Arkansas Art Center, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Krannert Art Museum, the New School Art Collection, the Weatherspoon Museum of Art and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at University of California Santa Barbara. His drawings were an ongoing interest for the noted works on paper collector Werner Kramarsky.