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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, Artist
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, New York/Grant in Painting,
The Rutgers University Fellowship in Innovative Printmaking, 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.
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| Biography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 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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