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Item Ships From: Fairfield County
Three Field Collage #2
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Category
Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
Anguilla I
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Category
Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
A Wilder Blue
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary
Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction.
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 been called a “painter’s painter”. His status in this regard is based on the authenticity of his work, its deep connection to the tradition of Modern painting as well as its sustained individuality as an utterly personal voice. 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 through his own potent iconography.
“From these seemingly unlovely methods Komarin gets paintings that vibrate with historical memory, echoing such things as Matisse’s driest most empty pictures. Robert Motherwell’s spare abstractions of the 1970’s, or the early New Mexico and Berkeley paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Price Upon Request
CAKES STACKED/SINGLE SACK (yellow on green)
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America
Sarah S. King July 2003
Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
Price Upon Request
CAKES STACKED/SINGLE SACK (white on blue)
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America
Sarah S. King July 2003
Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Duke and Wigmore Series #1
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Price Upon Request
CAKES STACKED/SINGLE SACK (green on pink)
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art in America
Sarah S. King July 2003
Komarin’s most successful works are serial - such as the Pop-artish “cake” images - in which versions of a crudely outlined central image are...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
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