Upcoming Exhibition Collection: Gary Komarin

Murray Hill Art Musee, owned and operated by Top 100 Collectors Group, is honored to present Collection: Gary Komarin. The exhibition collects 12 pieces, including oil paintings, acrylic paintings, acrylic on paper, and oil and acrylic on wood board artworks of Gary Komarin, and will be on view from October 1st, 2024 – January 31st, 2025.

Queens, New York, United States, 25th Jul 2024 – Murray Hill Art Musee, owned and operated by Top 100 Collectors Group, is honored to present Collection: Gary Komarin. The exhibition collects 12 pieces, including oil paintings, acrylic paintings, acrylic on paper, and oil and acrylic on wood board artworks of Gary Komarin, and will be on view from October 1st, 2024 – January 31st, 2025.

Gary Komarin (born 1951) is an American artist. Komarin is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University. 

Gary Komarin at Studio, 2023                         Photo credit to Tiantian Ma

Komarin has been invited to show in Dublin in a catalog exhibition titled “States of Feeling” essay by John Daly. In 2008, Komarin was invited to show a large cake painting at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah New York: “Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life” curated by Robert Cottingham. The same year, he had a solo museum exhibition at the Musee Kiyoharu Shirakaba in Japan. The exhibition and catalogue, “Moon Flows Like a Willow”, was orchestrated by the Yoshii Foundation in Tokyo with galleries in New York, Tokyo and Paris. In 1996, Komarin’s work was included in a pivotal exhibition at 41 Greene Street in New York City, along with work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Philip Guston and Bill Traylor. Komarin was also invited to exhibit his Vessel grouping on paper at the privately owned Musee Mougins in Mougins, France. Komarin’s work has also been included in curated group shows in New York, Dubai, and Zurich along with works by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jeff Koons, Yves Klein, and Joan Miró. Komarin’s work has been acquired by public and private museum collections globally, including the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; The Museum South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Denver Art Museum, The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California; Museum of Modern Art, Bogota; the Montclair Art Museum; the Newark Museum; the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; the Zimmerli Museum; the Arkansas Museum of Contemporary Art; Boston University Museum of Fine Arts; the Yoshii Foundation, Tokyo; the Musee Kiyoharu Shirabaka, Japan; and the Musee Mougins, France.

Gary Komarin, studio scene, 2023                                                                                                            Photo credit to Tiantian Ma

Komarin prefers non-art industrial canvas tarps and drop cloths as opposed to traditional painting media and materials. He builds layered surfaces with latex house paint mixed with spackle and water. The house paint offers hybrid colors that seem slightly “off” and the spackle creates a matte surface. Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle writes that “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 1970s, or the early New Mexico and Berkely paintings of Richard Diebenkorn.” Komarin’s Cake paintings, which he has been painting since 1996 when he first showed them in New York, were written about by Sarah King for Art in America, who wrote, “Komarin’s most successful works are serial such as Pop Art-like cake images, in which versions of a crudely outlined central image are repeated against a succession of subtle lyrical backgrounds.”

With a global vision, Murray Hill Art Musee has built a reputation for its dedication to promote the works of international artists and support of visionary artistic projects worldwide. Gary Komarin’s work seem like a door to the unknown – a way to explore himself, the world, the human condition. Together with Gary Kmarin, Murray Hill Art Mesee is going to show viewers “what you don’t know rather than what you know.” – by Gary Komarin. 

Kevin Yang (Hao Yang, Left), and Gary Komarin (right)

Cake, Gary Komarin, 2020 – 2023

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