Gary KOMARIN

our consciousness,

that painting should be more about “ experience than a statement of intent.

gary KOMARIN b. new york, 1951

Born in New York City, the son of a Czech Komarin has been particularly successful at architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin filtering these influences throughout his own is a risk taker in contemporary painterly potent iconography. abstraction. Contemporary American Painter skips Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality traditional painting media and materials that grip the viewer with the idea that he or for a latex hybrid mix she is looking at a contemporary description of Guston’s influence is evident in Komarin’s something timeless. For painter Gary Komarin, merger of drawing and painting, often breaking abstraction has never been a formal dead the picture plane of his rich and elegantly end. Rather, it has allowed him to challenge composed color fields with an assortment the limitations of the style–to make painting of private iconic cake and vessel-like objects. ‘include more’ precisely because a recognizable Preferring non-art industrial canvas tarps and image excludes too much. Komarin has been drop cloths, Komarin eschews traditional called a “painter’s painter.” His status in this painting media and materials. He builds layered regard is based on the authenticity of his work, surfaces with latex house paint in a thinned out its deep connection to the tradition of modern sluice mixed with spackle and water. The house painting as well as its sustained individuality as paint offers hybrid colors that seem slightly an utterly personal voice. ‘off ’ and the spackle creates a beautifully matte surface. Using color energetically, the quick- Extending the direction of the New York drying materials allow him to paint with a sense School painters of urgency, which mirrors the tension created Like many of the best artists of his generation, by conflicting renderings of the spontaneous he is indebted to the New York School, and the deliberate. The conscious and the especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom unconscious or the strange and familiar. The he studied at Boston University where he was resulting image is one that appears familiar but awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. resists recognition. gary KOMARIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 What She Said, Findlay Galleries, New York, NY 2009 Spanierman Modern, New York, NY The First Green Rushing, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Gallerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland Mr. Blond, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO Angus Broadbent Gallery, London, England

2015 A Wilder Blue, Mark Borghii Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 2008 Blue Scrubbed White, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Don’t Tell Lizzie Borden, Gallerie Design -e- Space, Paris, France Kiyoharu Museum, Kiyoharu, Japan Incident at Osboiurne Grove, Gallerie Baobob, Bogota, Columbia The Fine Art Society, London, England East Meets West, Gallery 88, Seoul Korea New Paintings and Works on Paper, Madelyn Jordan Gallery, NY 2007 Gary Komarin, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Spanierman Modern, New York, NY 2014 Gary Komarin, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID The Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX Gary Komarin Part II, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID From 24 Vessels at Kit Mandor, Musee D’Art Classique de Mougins, France 2006 Incident at Echo Lake, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, IA Farmhouse Logic, Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland Durango, Mini Gallery, Assisi, Italy SG Modern and Contemporary Fine Arts, NY Michael Dunev Project, Costa Brava, Spain The Bourdon Gauge, The Fine Art Society, London, England The Road So Bare and White, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai Art Trail, Seoul, Korea 2005 Donna Tribby Fine Arts, Palm Beach, FL

2013 Jack’s Bridge, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID In Which the Baron Fallow, Vigo Gallery, London, England 2004 Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, IA Annual Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Paris, France Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Galerie Proarta, Arp, Motherwell, Komarin and Heilman, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX Zurich, Switzerland Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, Tapping Reeve, San Francisco, CA Hamiltons Gallery, London, England The Road so Bare and White, Gremillion Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland and Co. Fine Arts, Houston, TX Broadbent Gallery, London, England Cuadro Gallery, The Early Influences, Dubai Lotte Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Seoul, Korea 2003 McGrath Gallery, New York, NY Kraft Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012 Hillsboro Gallery of FineArt, Dublin, Ireland States of Feeling: Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO Gary Komarin, Robert Motherwell and Larry Poons Kunstart Zürich, Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO Galerie ProArta, Zug, Switzerland Down and Dirty Whites, Bonbright Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX 2011 Gary Komarin, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2010 Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, IA 1984 Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL Ballard Featherston Gallery, Seattle, WA Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1983 Meadows Museum of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, MOFA, New Orleans, LA TX Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX Meredith & Long Gallery, Houston, TX

2000 Peyton/Wright, New York, NY 1982 University of Texas - Irving, Irving, TX Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta GA Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1981 Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1999 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY 1998 MOFA, New Orleans, LA Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, CS Schulte Gallery, NJ New York NY William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, TX 1997 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996 Mark Miller, East Hampton, NY Drew University, Madison, NJ 1979 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA museums 1994 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY The Musee Kiyoharu, Japan 1991 Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL The Musee Mougins, Mougins, France 1990 Scott Hanson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Arkansas Museum of Contemporary Art, Little Rock, AK 1989 Brian Reddy, Little Silver, NJ Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Boston University Art Museum, Boston, MA Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 1988 Princeton University Gallery, Princeton, NJ Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Museum of Fine Arts, Corpus Christi, TX 1987 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ Meredith & Long Gallery, Houston, TX Zimmerli Museum, New Hyde Park, NY awards JOAN MITCHELL PRIZE IN PAINTING

THE EDWARD ALBEE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP IN PAINTING, NEW YORK

THE NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS GRANT IN PAINTING

THE BENJAMIN ALTMAN PRIZE IN PAINTING, NEW YORK

THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS GRANT IN PAINTING

BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOWSHIP IN PAINTING FINDLAY GALLERIES

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