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GARY KOMARIN (American b. 1951) A PAINTING, "Ou est Jacqueline #2," 1983,
oil on canvas, signed and dated L/L, "Komarin 1983," a gallery label on reverse from Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas; 54" x 72", framed 55 1/2" x 73 1/2".

  • Provenance: Private Collection, La Grange, Texas. Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk-taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Like many of the best artists of his generation, he is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University, where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Komarin has been particularly successful at filtering these influences throughout his potent iconography. Guston's influence is evident in Komarin's merger of drawing and painting, often breaking the picture plane of his rich and elegantly composed color fields with an assortment of private iconic cake and vessel-like objects. Preferring non-art industrial canvas tarps and drop cloths, Komarin eschews traditional painting media and materials. He builds layered surfaces with latex house paint in a thinned-out sluice mixed with spackle and water. The house paint offers hybrid colors that seem slightly ‘off,' and the spackle creates a beautiful matte surface. Using color energetically, the quick-drying materials allow him to paint with a sense of urgency, which mirrors the tension created by conflicting renderings of the spontaneous and the deliberate-the conscious and the unconscious or the strange and familiar. The resulting image appears familiar but resists recognition. His work is a part of numerous private and museum collections such as The Denver Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Crocker Museum of Art, The Boise Art Museum, and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome. Komarin lives in the rural hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Source: Laura Rathe Fine Art.
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