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Gary Komarin
About the artist...
"Komarin's paintings and drawings are marvellous - plastic,
sensitive and serious, his feelings for line, space and form comprise
and innate sense of structure."
Philip Guston
Komarin works with recurrent motifs such as cakes,
vessels, hats and wigs. The forms are quite abstract, obscure and
partially recognisable. Using a cartoon-like expressionist style
he presents his objects playfully yet they are ultimately serious
and mysterious, exposing complex emotions.
Born in Manhattan in 1951, Gary Komarin received
a graduate teaching fellowship at Boston University where he studied
with Philip Guston. Komarin was offered his first teaching position
at Hoabrt and William Smith Colleges in 1978. He subsequently taught
at The University of Oregon, Southern Methodist University and the
Universtity of Iowa. Komarin received The Joan Mitchell Prize in
Painting in 1999 and has also received the Edward Albee Foundation
Fellowship in Painting, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New
York/Grant in Painting, The Benjamin Altman Prize, The Rutgers University
Fellowship in Innovative Printmaking, Arkansas Museum of Contemporary
Art Purchase Prize, a grant from the New York Foundation for the
Arts and the Philip Hulitar Award in Painting. He has been exhibiting
internationally since 1979 and has works in numerous private, corporate
and museum collections including The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston,
The Newark Museum, The Montclair Museum, Microsoft, ATT and the
Nordstrom Corporation. Komarin lives and works in the wooded hills
west of New York.
| Biography
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 |
Ipso Facto, Broadbent, London |
| 2008 |
Scents of Raindrops in Spring, ADT Gallery, San Francisco,
CA |
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Spanierman at East Hampton – Gallery Selections, Spanierman
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Abstractionists Gary Komarin, Steven Seinberg, Sabine Tress
And Amadea Bailey, Atlanta, GA |
| 2007 |
Gary Komarin 'Neue Bilder,' Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland |
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David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo) |
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Mrs. Langdon Afterward, Spainerman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2006 |
The Bourdon Gauge, The Fine Art Society, London |
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SG Modern and Contemporary Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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Galerie Proarta, Zurich |
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Incident at Echo Lake, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines,
IA |
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Works on Paper, Spainerman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2005 |
Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, California |
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J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida |
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Donna Tribby Fine Arts, Palm Beach, Florida |
| 2004 |
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
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Gerald Peters, Dallas, Texas |
| 2003 |
Galerie ProArta, Kunstart, Zurich |
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Galerie ProArta, Zug, Switzerland |
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McGrath Gallery, New York |
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Kraft Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 2002 |
Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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Galerie ProArta, Kunstart, Zurich |
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Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York |
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Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa |
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Ballard Featherston Gallery, Seattle, Washington |
| 2001 |
MOFA, New Orleans, Louisianna |
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Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
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Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Austin, Texas |
| 2000 |
Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Austin, Texas |
| 1999 |
Aurobora Press, San Fransisco, California |
| 1998 |
MOFA, New Orleans, Louisianna |
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CS Schulte Gallery, New Jersey |
| 1997 |
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington |
| 1996 |
Drew University Gallery, Madison, New Jersey |
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Mark Miller Gallery, East Hampton, New York |
| 1995 |
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta Georgia |
| 1994 |
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1992 |
Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York |
| 1991 |
Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida |
| 1989 |
Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida |
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Scott Hanson Gallery, New York |
| 1987 |
Meredith Lond and Company, Houston, Texas |
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Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta Georgia |
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Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida |
| 1985 |
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York |
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Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta Georgia |
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Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida |
| 1984 |
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago Illinois |
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Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1983 |
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York |
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Meadows Museum of the Arts, Dallas, Texas |
| 1982 |
The University Texas Art Gallery, Irving, Texas |
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Meredith Lond and Company, Houston, Texas |
| 1981 |
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York |
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, New York |
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William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas |
| 1979 |
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York |
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