2024
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.
Find original Gary Komarin paintings, drawings and mixed media works on 1stDibs.
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vessel
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel, 2024 Acrylic on canvas/wood panel 76.2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary K...
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vessel V
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Vessel V, 2020 Mixed media on paper 76.0 x 58.0 cm Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin finds room i...
Mixed Media
Small Canvas
By Gary Komarin
Located in London, GB
Gary Komarin Small Canvas, 2024 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.9 cm 14 x 11 inches Eschewing traditional materials in favor of tarps and drop cloths, spackle and house paint, Gary Komarin ...
Canvas, Oil
Loosha
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Mixed media on paper 34 x 12 in. Work is currently unframed. Framing is additional
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled 7.1.25
By Bryan Ricci
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In Untitled 7.1.25, Bryan Ricci presents a richly layered abstraction that moves between structure and release, color and gesture. Dense clusters of thick, block-like marks float acr...
Linen, Emulsion, Pigment, Polymer
Untitled, 2021
By ASKOY
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Oil
untitled #1
By Enrique Kico Govantes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Enrique Kico Govantes (Cuban, born 1957) Title: Untitled Year: Circa 1985 Medium: Oil on pressed board panel Panel size: 23.5 x 9.5 inches Signature: Signed on t...
Oil
Vessel
By Paul Shakespear
Located in Westport, CT
Paul Shakespear’s minimalist works constantly explore the material properties of paint. This painting is beautifully surfaced. The artist strives to achieve translucence, depth or even a stony surface. The work has no narrative. It has some mark making, but it’s subservient to the tactile quality of the painting’s surface. It’s all about painting as object. He applies close to forty layers of think acrylic glazes that are brushed, troweled and rubbed on. The final layer is often an equisite highly polished surface. The artist compares painting to making music, an activity beyond words, a reaching for the emotional and unconscious world. His work has been exhibited in the U.S., Europe and South America. He is in numerous collections, including Addison Gallery of American Art; Ann & Graham Gund Colleciton; Fidelity Investments; University of San Diego; Berkshire Partners and De Cordova Museum. Paul Shakespear lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was educated at Boston College...
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Susan Lisbin
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on gessoboard
Gesso, Acrylic, Board
