Gary Komarin

A risk taker in the Abstract Expressionist
tradition, Gary Komarin was born in new
York City, the son of a Czech architect
and a Viennese writer.

Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic
quality that grip the viewer with the idea
that he or she is looking at a contemporary
description of something timeless. For painter
Gary Komarin, abstraction has never been a
formal dead end. Rather, it has allowed him to
challenge the limitations of the style to make
painting ‘include more’ precisely because a
recognizable image excludes too much.

Komarin has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, the
United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. In 2008, he had a solo museum
exhibition at the Musee Kiyoharu Shirakaba in Japan. The exhibition
and catalogue, Moon Flows Like a Willow, was orchestrated by the
Yoshii Foundation in Tokyo with galleries in New York, Tokyo and Paris

In 1996 Komarin’s work was included in a pivotal exhibition at 41 Greene
Street, NY, where his work was shown with paintings of Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Philip Guston and Bill Taylor. He has also been honored with the
Joan Mitchel Prize in Painting, The New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting, the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship in Painting, the
Elizabeth Foundation New York Prize in Painting and the Benjamin Altman
Prize in Painting from the National Academy of Design Museum, New York.