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Biography Gary Komarin Born: New York City 1951 Boston University MFA in Painting New York Studio School Solo exhibitions: 2008 Kiyohara Museum, Kiyoharu, Japan The Fine Art Society, London, England 2007 Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA Spanierman Modern, New York, NY The Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Costello-Childs Gallery, Phoenix, AZ 2006 Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, IA Galerie ProArta, Zurich, Switzerland SG Modern and Contemporary Fine Arts, New York, NY The Fine Art Society, London, England 2005 Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, California J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida Donna Tribby Fine Arts, Palm Beach, Florida 2004 Hamiltons Gallery, London Galerie ProArta, Zürich Broadbent Gallery, London Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas Gremillion & Company, Houston, Texas Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 2003 McGrath Gallery, New York Kraft Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado Kunstart Zürich, Galerie ProArta, Switzerland Galerie ProArta, Zug, Switzerland Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Austin Texas 2002 Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Galerie ProArta, Zürich Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2001 MOFA, New Orleans, Louisiana Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Austin, Texas 2000 Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston Texas 1999 Aurobora Press, San Francisco California 1998 MOFA, New Orleans, Louisiana CS Schulte Gallery, New Jersey 1997 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1996 Drew University Gallery, Madison, New Jersey Mark Miller Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1995 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1994 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1992 Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, New York 1991 Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1989 Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida Scott Hanson Gallery, New York City, New York 1987 Meredith Long and Company, Houston Texas Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1985 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1984 Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1983 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York Meadows Museum of the Arts, Dallas, Texas 1982 The University of Texas Art Gallery, Irving, Texas Meredith Long and Co., Houston, Texas 1981 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, New York William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas 1979 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York Selected group exhibitions: 2007 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY 2006 Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY Spanierman Modern, New York, NY Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2005 Kunstart Amsterdam w/Nico DeLaive Gallery, Amsterdam Goss Gallery Inaugural Show, Dallas, Texas London Art Fair, w/Broadbent Gallery San Francisco Art Fair, w/Elins Eagles Smith Gallery “Transversal”, curated group show, Robischon Gallery, Denver 2004 Ronald Feldman Gallery, Philips de Pury & Co, curated auction, ‘Democratic Victory ’04’, New York ‘Slow Art’, Broadbent Gallery, London ‘32 X 32’, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas London Art Fair, Broadbent Gallery, Londonworks on Paper, w/Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York Bologna Art Fair, Broadbent, London 2003 “The Americans”, Warhol, Francis, Lichtenstein, Christo, Komarin at Galerie Proarta, Zurich Basel Art Fair, Hamiltons Gallery, London Milan Art Fair, Galerie Arte et Arta, Bologna, Italy Art of This Century, The Armory, New York, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto Angus Broadbent Gallery, London Richmond House Project, London; Architect: Sir Terry Farrell; Curator: Tim Jeffries, Hamiltons Gallery New Abstraction, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York Kraft/Lieberman Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Chicago Luke Honey, London 2002 National Academy of Design Museum Annual Invitational - Recipient Benjamin Altman Prize ín Painting Kunstart Fair, Zurich, Galerie ProArta Robischon Gallery, “Solice”: 9/11 Galerie ProArta, Züg, Switzerland Lowe Gallery Los Angeles, Inaugural Exhibit 100 NJ Artists Make Prints, NJ State Museum, Morris Museum, Noyes Museum The Maker's Mark, The University of New Orleans, New Orleans Works on Paper, w/Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York City 2001 Almost Giddy, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee New Directions, Masur Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Report & Find, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado Paintings on Paper, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan New York/New Works on Paper, Lizan Tops, East Hampton, New York Chicago Art Fair, with Tandem Press San Francisco Art Fair, with Tandem Press Works on Paper, w/Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York 2000 Tandem Press, The Print Fair at the Armory, New York Homage to the Twentieth Century, New Orleans Center for Contemporary Arts Chicago Art Fair, with Thomas McCormick, Chicago St. Louis Print Fair, w/Burton Marinkovich The Baltimore Print Fair, w/Gary Godwin, St. Louis Works on Paper, w/Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York 1999 The American Summer, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham Michigan San Francisco Art Fair, with Fay Gold, Greg Kucera, Brian Gross Galleries Works on Paper, with Jeffrey Hoffeld and Co., The Armory, New York Nature Naturing, Percival Gallery, Des Moines Iowa ‘About Paint’, Linda Cathcart Fine Arts, San Francisco California Komarin Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco California Rutgers University, Grant Winners/ A Survey of New Work, Rutgers New Jersey 1998 On Paper - Associated American Artists, New York Mac Attack, John McEnroe Gallery, New York Third Person, Merrill Lynch, New York Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Washington Works on Paper, Adam Baumgold Gallery at the Armory, New York The Chicago Art Fair, with Garner Tullis, New York Susan Conway Gallery, Washington DC The French Wig, Jan Andersen, New York 1997 Newark Museum, New Jersey Biennial, curated by Joseph Jacobs The New Americans, The John McEnroe Gallery in Kobe Japan University of Hawaii, National Invitational Drawing Exhibition East Hampton Drawing Invitational, Arlene Bujese, East Hampton New York The Rain Forest Foundation Benefit, John McEnroe Gallery, New York Gramercy Park, Chateaux Marmont, Montgomery Glasoe Gallery, Minneapolis MN Pinned to the Wall, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, Austin Texas Perspectives of Nature, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York Young Painters, Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1996 Guston, Basquiat, Komarin, Traylor - John McEnroe Gallery, New York The Chicago Art Fair, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana A Changing Cast/Changing Color, Michael Walls for Ruth O’Hara, New York Fifty/50, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco California Balancing Act, Room Project Space, New York Works on Paper, with Jan Andersen Fine Art at the Armory, New York 1995 New Works on Paper, Installation at Margaret Lipworth, Boca Raton, FL A Part; A Whole, Room Project Space, New York New Work/New York, curated by G. Presti, Gagosian Gallery, New York ‘On a Smaller Scale’, Grace Hokin, Palm Beach Florida 1994 Narrative Abstractions, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach Florida New Directions, William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas American Painting, Meredith Long and Co., Houston Texas 1993 Art and Object, Frankel/Nathanson Gallery, New York Post Modern Abstraction, Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach Florida 1992 Re-thinking the Grid, Brian Reddy Gallery, New Jersey A Drawing Survey, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York 1990 Past/Present/Future, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton Florida The Figure in the 20th Century, Meredith Long and Co. Houston Texas Wet Paint, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York 1988 Recent Drawings Here and Abroad, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles The Morris Museum Biennial, Morristown New Jersey Chicago Art Fair, with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York 1987 The University of Texas Art Gallery - Texas Artists, Dallas, Texas San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio Texas The Longview Museum, Longview Texas Fun and Brains, The Kraine Club, New York 1986 Indigestion, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York Chicago art Fair, w/Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York ‘Words’ Joy Moos Gallery, Miami Florida Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach Florida The Dog Days of August, Jacquie LittleJohn Gallery, New York 1985 Ten Painters in Texas, University of Texas, El Paso Texas The Meadows Museum of the Arts, Dallas Texas 1983 Recent Trends in American Art, The Tampa Museum, Tampa Florida Modern Masters/Contemporary Works on Paper, Max Davidson Gallery, New York The Painted Object Painted, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles California Art and the Law, The Dallas Museum, Dallas Texas National Drawing Competition, Yale University Art Gallery 1982 About Face, Laura Carpenter Gallery, Dallas Texas Wunsch Art Center Exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum, New York The Arkansas Art Center, 26th Annual Painting Exhibition, Little Rock Arkansas 1981 The Museum of Fine Arts, Eugene Oregon 1979 In Context, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, Geneva, New York Prizes & Awards: The Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting The Edward Albee Foundation New York/Fellowship in Painting The New York Foundation for the Arts/Grant in Painting The Benjamin Altman Prize/National Academy of Design Museum, New York The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New York/Grant in Painting Philip Hulitar Award in Painting Museum of Contemporary Art/Arkansas Prize in Painting Graduate Teaching Fellowship/Boston University Graduate School of Fine Arts Collaborations: Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas, 2004 Segura Press, Tempe, Arizona, 2001 Garner Tullis, New York, 2000, 1997 Tandem Press, University of Wisconsin, 2000 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, 2002, 1999 Rutgers University Press, School of Innovative Printmaking, NJ, 1998 Selected Bibliography: 2003 King, Sarah S., Art in America, July Brandenberg, Andreas, Zuger Presse, 'Complex Paintings from Overseas’, Galerie ProArta 2002 Taylor, Art, 'Komarin at Lizan Tops’, East Hampton Arts, New York 2000 Schwabsky, Barry, ‘Paintings do the Talking Without Too Many Specifics’,The New York Times 1998 Langdon, Davis, ‘French Wig Arrives in East Hampton,’ Hamptons Gazette 1997 Foxworth, Janet, ‘Gary Komarin’s The Naming of John Dreamer’, The AtlantaJournal 1996 Waddington, Chris, ‘Subjects Simple but Art Deceptively Sophisticated’,The New Orleans Lagniappe 1995 Grayson, Clive, ‘Gary Komarin at Susan Conway’, The Washington Post 1994 Lloyd, Amy, ‘Gary Komarin Shows New Expressive Work at Sandler/Hudson,Art in America 1993 Reed, Vincent, ‘Komarin Explores the Painterly’ at Klarfeld Perry, Arts Magazine 1991 Loughery, John, ‘Komarin, The Master of the Elemental Image’ at Maxwell Davidson, Arts Magazine 1989 Watson, Edward, ‘Surrealist Loads Canvas’, The New Jersey Star Ledger 1987 Russell, John, ‘The Dog Days of August’, The New York Times 1985 Zimmer, William, ‘Something – But What?, The New York Times Zimmer, William, ‘A Rich Array…From Newburgh to Newark’, The New York Times 1982 Everingham, Carol, ‘A Comical View of the American Dream’, The Houston Post 1981 Perry, Paloma, ‘Stories in Paint’, The Atlanta Journal Kutner, Janet, ‘Komarin Shows Strong Work’, The Dallas Morning News 1980 Baker, Ralph, ‘Komarin Paintings and Works on Paper’, The Museum of Art at The University of Oregon, Eugene, catalog essay 1979 Parks, Addison, ‘Gary Komarin New Work at Maxwell Davidson’, ARTS Magazine Private Collections: Museum of Fine Arts Houston Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, Houston Newark Museum Stevens Corporation Montclair Art Museum Meredith Long & Co., Houston Jersey City Museum Tim Jeffries, Hamiltons Gallery, London Morris Museum New Jersey State Council on the Arts Museum of Contemporary Art, Arkansas Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York Zimmerli Museum Boston University Museum of Fine Arts Noyes Museum Wendy Olsoff, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York Microsoft Corporation Touche Ross, Inc AT&T The Newark Public Library The Nordstrom Corporation Galerie Proarta, Zurich Continental Airlines Rutgers University Blount Corporation Houston Memorial Hospital Prudential Insurance Company of America The Hyatt Corporation United Bank of Houston Aurobora Press, San Francisco McDonalds Corporation |