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BORN 1951 New York, NY
EDUCATION
1975 – 1977 Boston University, MFA in Painting
1975 Brooklyn Museum School
New York Studio School
1973 Albany State University, BA in Art and English Literature
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 212 Gallery, Aspen. March Neilson Gallery, Grazalema, Spain. June New Art Centre, Berlin, Germany. September Elins Eagles Smith Gallery,San Francisco. October Gremillion and Co, Houston. October Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2009 Spanierman Modern, New York, NY Gallerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
Angus Broadbent Gallery, London, England
2008 Blue Scrubbed White, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Kiyoharu Museum, Kiyoharu, Japan The Fine Art Society, London, England
2007 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Spanierman Modern,
New York, NY The Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco,
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY
2006 “The Hungry Eye”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
“Works on Paper”, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
“Long Island Abstraction”, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
“Discardingly Yours”, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2005 The Fine Art Society, London, UK
Kunstart Amsterdam with Nico DeLaive Gallery
Goss Gallery Inaugural Show, Dallas, TX
London Art Fair with Broadbent Gallery
San Francisco Art Fair with Elins Eagles-
“Transversal”, curated group show, Robuschon Gallery, Denver, CO
Broadbent Gallery, London, England
Richmond House Project with Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
“New Abstraction”, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Kraft/Lieberman Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
2002 The Benjamin Altman Prize in Painting
2000 Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship
1999 The Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant
1998 The New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
1996 Continental Airlines VIP Gallery Show
Philip Hulitar Award in Painting
1995 New Foundation of the Arts Award
1988 Arkansas Museum of Contemporary Art
1984 Jane Livingston (Corcoran Gallery/Curator contemporary painting and sculpture), selected award for the Assistance League of Houston
1981 Hilton Kramer, Juror, selection of Purchase Prize, The Art Center 25th Annual Painting & Sculpture Competition
1975 Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Painting, Boston University, assistant to Philip Guston
COLLABORATIONS
2004 Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
2002 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2001 Segura Press, Tempe, AZ
2000 Garner Tullis, New York, NY
2000 Tandem Press, University of Wisconsin
1999 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1998 Rutgers University Press, School of Innovative Printmaking, NJ
1997 Garner Tullis, New York, NY
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
King, Sarah S., Art in America, July 2003
Brandenberg, Andreas, Zuger Presse, ‘Complex Paintings from Overseas’,
Galerie ProArta, 2002
Taylor, Art, ‘Komarin at Lizan Tops’, East Hampton Arts, New York, 2002
Schwabsky, Barry, ‘Paintings do the Talking Without Too Many Specifics’, The
New York Times, 2000
Grayson, Clive, ‘Gary Komarin at Susan Conway’, The Washington Post, 1995
Waddington, Chris, ‘Subjects Simple but Art Deceptively Sophisticated’, The
New Orleans Lagniappe, 1996
Langdon, Davis, ‘French Wig in East Hampton,’ Hamptons Gazette 1998
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Arkansas Museum of Contemporary Art, Little Rock, AK
AT&T Corporation, New York, NY
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
Blount Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Boston University Art Museum, Boston, MA
Continental Airlines, Houston, TX
David Alan Greer, Los Angeles, CA
Faegre & Benson, Des Moines, IA
Galerie ProArta, Zurich, Switzerland
Garner Tullis, New York, NY and Tuscany, Italy
Gisep Biert, President of Morgan Stanley, Zurich, Swizterland
Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Herbert Palmer, Los Angeles, CA
Houston Memorial Hospital & Medical Center, Houston, TX
Hyatt Corporation, Houston, TX
Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York, NY
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
John McEnroe, New York, NY
John Rubenstein & Associates, Bernardsville, NJ
Kimball Museum, Chairperson, Private Collection, Fort Worth, TX
Luke Honey, de Pury and Luxembourg, London, Engaland
Maison Klein, Curator, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Marian Boesky, New York, NY
Maxwell Davidson, New York, NY
McDonald’s Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Michael Hoban, London, England
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Nordstrom Corporation, Seattle, WA
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Boston, MA
Robert Lamb, Los Angeles, CA
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ruth O’Hara, New York, NY
Sandler/Hudson, Atlanta, GA
Steven’s Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Tanaka Shiroga, Tokyo, Japan
Tim Jefferies, London, England
Toby Clarke, director of The Fine Art Society, London, England
Touche/Ross, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Transco, Inc., New York, NY
United Bank of Houston, Houston, TX
Wendy Olsoff, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Zimmerli Museum, New Hyde Park, NJ
Neilson Gallery -