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Gary Komarin “Untitled Green Vessel on Yellow Green”, acrylic on paper, 2000
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Gary Komarin (b. 1951) belongs to the generation of post-painterly abstract artists alongside such notable artists as Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler and Ellsworth Kelly to name a few of this school.
Post-painterly abstraction is a school of art that reacted to the so-called “painterly” style of the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950’s and 1960’s. It encompasses several different styles such as color-field painting, hard-edge abstraction and the Washington Color School..
The term “post-painterly abstraction” was coined by critic Clement Greenberg in 1964 who thought that Abstract Expressionism of the 1940’s and 1950’s had degenerated into a weak movement with time. According to him, the art form should restrict itself to those qualities essential only to itself and should avoid any associations with sculpture, theatre, music or literature.
In post-painterly abstract painting, the focus is on the exploitation of the purely optical qualities of pigment with emphasis on the shape of the canvas and the flatness of the picture plane. Colors are vivid, bright and not layered. The painting itself is the object rather than an expression of the artist’s inner emotions. The whole movement synthesized elements from many prominent artists such as Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and even Henri Matisse. It even borrowed ideas of Cubism, Bauhaus, and Piet Mondrian. It set abstract painting on a more purely abstract basis than before. It favored more openness and clarity as opposed to the dense painterly surfaces of Abstract Expressionism.
Gary Komarin’s works are found in many prominent museums all over the world as well as in countless private collections. He has exhibited in France, Japan, Dubai, Zurich and New York along such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons and Joan Miro to name a few. There have been many articles published about his work in the New York Times, Art in America and Arts Magazine among others. He currently lives and works in Roxbury, Connecticut.
The current painting “Untitled Green Vessel on Yellow Green” is part of his Vessel series and was painted in 2000.
The condition of this painting is absolutely excellent. The frame is new. Signed lower left.
DIMENSIONS:
27.75 in. (70.5 cm.). X. 35.5 in. (90.1 cm.). with the frame
21.75 in. (55.3 cm.). X. 29.75 in. (75.5 cm.) painting only (no frame)
- Creator:Gary Komarin (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)Width: 27.75 in (70.49 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:2000
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- Seller Location:Hampstead, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7242238631002
Gary Komarin
A forerunner of the post-painterly abstraction movement, contemporary artist Gary Komarin approaches each composition with a pure openness to inspiration. With every brushstroke, he builds a visual interpretation of his mindset in that moment, never knowing what he's going to paint next. Komarin asserts that, for him, "the best paintings are the paintings that paint themselves."
Komarin invites risk into his abstract work, and employs daring in every element of his pieces. From his adventurous deployment of spackle and house paint as mediums to his playful use of color and imperfect lines, he pulls forms from a backdrop of consciousness, rather than merely delivering images to a surface. He enjoys instilling a child's sense of wonder into his abstractions and still-lifes, invoking a toddler's experience of "seeing things without knowing what they are."
Born in New York City, Komarin is the son of a Czech architect and Austrian author. He attended art school at Boston University, where painter Phillip Guston became a mentor. Much of Komarin's work nods to Guston, without mimicking or replicating the latter’s signature cartoonish style.
Komarin has exhibited in the United States, Asia, the United Kingdom and throughout continental Europe. In 1996, his work was included in an exhibition at 41 Green Street in New York. He has received numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts grant in painting, the Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting and the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship. Komarin lives in rural Connecticut, where he continues to create new work.
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