Gary Komarin Art

Unique; water-based enamel paint on paper bags

Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks

Gary Komarin Cake Stacked, Barcelona, 2025 Signed by the artist Enamel paint on wood panel 127 x 61 50 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths,...

Gary Komarin Cake Stacked, Galisteo, 2025 Signed by the artist Enamel paint on wood panel 127 x 61 50 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, ...

Gary Komarin A Suite of Blue Sea, Fontveille, 2024 Signed by the artist Mixed media on canvas 152 x 122 cm 60 x 48 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop ...

Gary Komarin Cake Painting (Pink, White, Black), 2019 Mixed media on paper 129 x 60 cm 51 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and ...

Gary Komarin Creme on Orange with Hints of Lemon and Lime, 2023 Mixed media on canvas 127 x 121.9 cm 50 x 48 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths...

Gary Komarin A Suite of Blue Sea, Majorca, 2024 Signed by the artist Mixed media on canvas 152 x 122 cm 60 x 48 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop clo...

Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks

Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks

Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks

'The French Wig (white)' 2015 by American artist, Gary Komarin. Mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 in. Wigs are among Komarin’s most recognizable idiosyncratic images. This faux naive wo...

'The French Wig (blue)' 2016 by American artist, Gary Komarin. Mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 in. Wigs are among Komarin’s most recognizable idiosyncratic images. This faux naive wor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...