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Gary Komarin
About
1951, born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker and considered a modern master in post painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grips 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.
He is one of the representative artists of the New York School, exhibiting with Basquiat and Keith Haring. The attraction of these Komarin works is heterogeneity. He uses non-traditional materials such as industrial tarpaulin and water-based paint to complete the work, and a kind of collision occurs in this gap. This collision is not just a collision, it's a combination of elegance and weirdness, moderation and freedom, and it encompasses different things in one screen. Also, the figures and figures that appear in the work seem spontaneous at first glance, but you can see that it's a sense of Gary Komarin that's concentrated on the endurance of a long time. The playful images in his paintings convey the pure value of timeless art and give us a great impression.
1951๋ ๋ด์์์ ์ฒด์ฝ ๊ฑด์ถ๊ฐ์ ์๋ค๋ก ํ์ด๋ ๊ฒ๋ฆฌ ์ฝ๋ง๋ฆฐ์ ์์ ์ ๋๋ดํ ํฐ์น๊ฐ ํน์ง์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ฌ์์๋ ํ๊ธฐ ํํ์ ์ถ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฆฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์๋๋ฅผ ์ด์ํ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ค์ ํ๋์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ํํํ์ฌ ๊ฐ์์๋ฅผ ์ง์ค์ํจ๋ค. ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์์ด ์ถ์์ ์ด๋ค ํ์์ ์ฃฝ์์ด๋ ๋์ ์๋ฏธํ์ง ์๋๋ค. ์ธ์งํ ์ ์๋ ํํ๋ ๋ค์ํ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ดํฌํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ต๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ์คํ๋ ค ์ถ์์์ ์ ์๊ฐ์๊ฒ ํ์์ ์ธ ํ๊ณ์ ๋ํ ๋์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ‘๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ด๋’ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก์์ ํํ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐ์คํค์, ํค์คํด๋ง๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ ์ํ๋ฉฐ ๋ด์ํ๋๋ฏธ์ ์ ๋ํํ๋ ์ํฐ์คํธ์ค ํ ๋ช ์ด๋ค. ํนํ, ์ฝ๋ง๋ฆฐ ์ํ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ '์ด์ง์ฑ'์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ฉ ๋ฐฉ์ํฌ๋ ์์ฑํ์ธํธ ๋ฑ ๋น์ ํต์ ์ฌ๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํด ์ํ์ ์์ฑ์ํค๋๋ฐ, ์ด ๊ฐ๊ทน์์ ์ผ์ข ์ ์ถฉ๋์ด ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค. ์ด ์ถฉ๋์ ์ผ์ฐจ์์ ์ธ ๋ฐ์์ ๊ทธ์น์ง ์๊ณ ์ฐ์ํจ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ดํจ, ์ ์ ์ ์์ ๋ก์ ๋ฑ์ ์์๋ด๋ฉฐ ํ ํ๋ฉด ์์ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์์ฐ๋ฅธ๋ค. ๋ํ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ ๋์๊ณผ ๋ํ๋ค์ ์ธ๋ป ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฆํฅ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋, ์ด๋ ์ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ด๊ณต์ด ์ง์ฝ๋ ๊ฒ๋ฆฌ ์ฝ๋ง๋ฆฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์์ ์ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์ ์ ํฌ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ค์ ์๋๋ฅผ ์ด์ํ๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ ์์ํ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌํ๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ํฐ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ ์ฌํ๋ค.
Selected Works
Cake, Stacked, Orange on Creฬme and White
Water based enamel paint on paper sacks 126.7 x 120.8 2017
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Cake, Stacked, Orange on Creฬme and WhiteWater based enamel paint on paper sacks 126.7 x 120.8 2017
Cake, Stacked, Pale Blue on Grey
Water based enamel paint on paper sacks 127 x 60.5 2022
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Cake, Stacked, Pale Blue on GreyWater based enamel paint on paper sacks 127 x 60.5 2022
Still Life with the French Wig
Water based enamel paint on canvas 197.5 x 167.5 2021
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Still Life with the French WigWater based enamel paint on canvas 197.5 x 167.5 2021
THE FRENCH WIG 8
Mixed media on canvas 35.5 x 28 2019
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THE FRENCH WIG 8Mixed media on canvas 35.5 x 28 2019
THE FAR FIELD
Mixed media on canvas 122 x 137 2019
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THE FAR FIELDMixed media on canvas 122 x 137 2019
Testimony
Water based enamel paint on canvas 50.7 x 40.5 2020
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TestimonyWater based enamel paint on canvas 50.7 x 40.5 2020
THE FRENCH WIG 16
Mixed media on canvas 35.5 X 28 2019
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THE FRENCH WIG 16Mixed media on canvas 35.5 X 28 2019
Exhibitions