BIOGRAPHY

GARY KOMARIN (b. 1951)

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A risktaker in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Gary Komarin paints the fancy free world of the imagination with authority and aplomb. Following his intuitive sense of color, form, and surface, he makes the creative process critical to his art. Komarin, the son of an architect, creates work that “while it implies a delicate human-ness, suggests architectural form. His work speaks of the gray and uncertain areas of life. A time caught between recognition and definition where the images themselves become the zenith of focus.”

Born in New York City in 1951, Komarin studied with the New York School painter Philip Guston at Boston University where he received his MFA. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and in Europe. Solo exhibitions of Komarin’s work have been held at the Fine Art Society, London; Galerie Proarta, Zurich; Hamiltons Gallery, London; Meadows Museum of the Arts, Dallas, Texas; the New Orleans Center for Contemporary Arts; and the University of Texas Art Gallery, Irving, Texas. In 1999 Komarin received the Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting and the New York Grant in Painting from the Elizabeth Foundation. He received the Benjamin Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design Museum, New York, in 2002 and a grant from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in 1999.

Articles and reviews of Komarin have appeared in the New York Times, and in leading art magazines including Art in America and Arts Magazine. His works may be found in many noted public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; the Microsoft Corporation, Seattle; and the Hyatt Corporation.

Komarin lives in the wooded hills west of New York where he keeps a house and studio.

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