Gary Komarin (b. 1951, New York) is a risk taker in modern painting. For nearly five decades, Komarin’s stalwart dedication to the potential of concrete art continues to produce work that remains fresh and alive, containing spontaneity, playful figuration, and painterly expression. For Komarin, abstraction has allowed him to challenge the limitations of the style to make painting ‘include more’ precisely because a recognizable image excludes too much. Komarin’s work has been exhibited extensively internationally and is found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Rome; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, Bogota; Musée Kiyoharo, Japan; and Musée Mougin, France. Komarin is the recipient of numerous accolades including the Joan Mitchel Prize in Painting, the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship in Painting, and the Philip Guston Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Boston University. His work has been published in The New York Times, Art in America, L’Oficiel Paris, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Arts Magazine. Komarin lives and works in Roxbury, Connecticut and in New York City.
