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Exhibitions

• 2006 SG Modern and Contemporary Fine Arts, New York, NY
• 2006 Galerie Proarta, Zurich
• 2006 Incident at Echo Lake, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
• 2006 Works on Paper, Spainerman Modern, New York, NY
• 2005 Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, California
• 2005 J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
• 2005 Donna Tribby Fine Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
• 2004 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
• 2004 Gerald Peters, Dallas, Texas
• 2003 McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
• 2003 Kraft Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 2003 Kunstart Zürich, Galerie ProArta, Switzerland
• 2003 Galerie ProArta, Zug, Switzerland
• 2003 Art of This Century, The Armory, New York, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
• 2003 Angus Broadbent Gallery, London
• 2003 New Abstraction, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York
• 2003 Kraft/Lieberman Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Chicago
• 2003 Luke Honey, London
• 2003 Basel Art Fair, Hamiltons Gallery, London
• 2003 Milan Art Fair, Galerie Arte et Arta, Bologna, Italy
• 2002 100 NJ Artists Make Prints, NJ State Museum, Morris Museum, Noyes Museum
• 2002 The Maker's Mark, The University of New Orleans, New Orleans
• 2002 Works on Paper, w/Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York City
• 2002 National Academy of Design Museum Annual Invitational - Recipient Benjamin Altman Prize ín Painting
• 2002 Kunstart Fair, Zurich, Galerie ProArta
• 2002 Robischon Gallery, “Solice”: 9/11
• 2002 Galerie ProArta, Züg, Switzerland
• 2002 Lowe Gallery Los Angeles, Inaugural Exhibit
• 2002 Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
• 2002 Ballard Featherston Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• 2002 Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX
• 2002 Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2002 Galerie ProArta, Zürich
• 2002 Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York
• 2001 MOFA, New Orleans, Louisiana
• 2001 Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
• 2001 Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
• 2001 Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Austin Texas
• 2001 Works on Paper, with Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York
• 2001 Almost Giddy, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
• 2001 New Directions, Masur Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
• 2001 Report & Find, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
• 2001 Paintings on Paper, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
• 2001 New York/New Works on Paper, Lizan Tops, East Hampton, NY
• 2001 Chicago Art Fair, with Tandem Press
• 2001 San Francisco Art Fair, with Tandem Press
• 2000 Tandem Press, The Print Fair at the Armory, New York
• 2000 Homage to the Twentieth Century, New Orleans Center for Contemporary Arts
• 2000 Chicago Art Fair, with Thomas McCormick, Chicago
• 2000 St. Louis Print Fair, with Burton Marinkovich
• 2000 The Baltimore Print Fair, with Gary Godwin, St. Louis
• 2000 Works on Paper, with Burton Marinkovich, The Armory, New York
• 2000 Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2000 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
• 2000 Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston Texas
• 2000 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
• 2000 Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
• 2000 Gremillion and Co., Houston, TX (solo)
• 2000 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA (solo)
• 2000 Percival Gallery, Des Moines, IO (solo)
• 2000 Homage to the Twentieth Century, New Orleans Center for Contemporary Arts, LA
• 2000 Chicago Art Fair, with Thomas McCormick, Chicago, IL
• 2000 Third Person, Merril Lynch, New York, NY
• 2000 Works on Paper, The Armory, with Jeffrey Hoffeld and Co., NY
• 1999 Aurobora Press, San Francisco California
• 1999 The American Summer, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham Michigan
• 1999 Nature Naturing, Percival Gallery, Des Moines Iowa
• 1999 ‘About Paint’, Linda Cathcart Fine Arts, San Francisco California
• 1999 Komarin Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco California
• 1999 Rutgers University, Grant Winners/ A Survey of New Work, Rutgers New Jersey
• 1999 The American Summer, Tim Hill, Birmingham, MI
• 1999 On Paper, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
• 1999 The Newark Museum, New Jersey Biennial
• 1999 San Francisco Art Fair, w/Fay Gold, Greg Kucera, Brian Gross Galleries
• 1999 Works on Paper, w/Jeffrey Hoffeld and Co., The Armory, New York
• 1998 MOFA, New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1998 CS Schulte Gallery, New Jersey
• 1998 East Hampton Drawing Invitational, A. Bujese Gallery, East HAmpton, NY
• 1998 The New Americans, John McEnroe Gallery, Kobe, Japan
• 1998 On Paper - Associated American Artists, New York
• 1998 Mac Attack, John McEnroe Gallery, New York
• 1998 Third Person, Merrill Lynch, New York
• 1998 Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Washington
• 1998 Works on Paper, Adam Baumgold Gallery at the Armory, New York
• 1998 The Chicago Art Fair, with Garner Tullis, New York
• 1998 Susan Conway Gallery, Washington DC
• 1998 The French Wig, Jan Andersen, New York
• 1998 Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA (solo)
• 1997 Young Painters, Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1997 Newark Museum, New Jersey Biennial, curated by Joseph Jacobs
• 1997 The New Americans, The John McEnroe Gallery in Kobe Japan
• 1997 University of Hawaii, National Invitational Drawing Exhibition
• 1997 East Hampton Drawing Invitational, East Hampton, New York
• 1997 The Rain Forest Foundation Benefit, John McEnroe Gallery, New York
• 1997 Gramercy Park, The Chateaux Marmont, Montgomery Glasoe Gallery, Minneapolis MN
• 1997 Pinned to the Wall, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, Austin Texas
• 1997 Perspectives of Nature, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York
• 1997 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• 1996 Drew University Gallery, Madison, New Jersey
• 1996 Mark Miller Gallery, East Hampton, New York
• 1996 Guston, Basquiat, Traylor, and Komarin, John McEnroe, New York,
• 1996 Guston, Basquiat, Komarin, Traylor - John McEnroe Gallery, NY
• 1996 The Chicago Art Fair, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana
• 1996 Fifty/50, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco California
• 1996 Balancing Act, Room Project Space, New York
• 1996 Works on Paper, with Jan Andersen Fine Art at the Armory, NY
• 1996 Grace Hokin, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
• 1995 ‘On a Smaller Scale’, Grace Hokin, Palm Beach Florida
• 1995 New Works on Paper, Installation/Margaret Lipworth, Boca Raton Fl
• 1995 A Part; A Whole, Room Project Space, New York
• 1995 New Work/New York, curated by G. Presti, Gagosian Gallery, NY
• 1995 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1995 Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
• 1994 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• 1994 Narrative Abstractions, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach Florida
• 1994 New Directions, William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
• 1994 American Painting, Meredith Long and Co., Houston Texas
• 1994 Herbert Palmer, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
• 1993 Art and Object, Frankel/Nathanson Gallery, New York
• 1993 Post Modern Abstraction, Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach Florida
• 1992 Re-thinking the Grid, Brian Reddy Gallery, New Jersey
• 1992 A Drawing Survey, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1992 Klarfeld Perry, New York, NY (solo)
• 1992 Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, New York
• 1991 Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
• 1990 Wet Paint, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
• 1990 Past/Present/Future, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton Florida
• 1990 The Figure in the 20th C, Meredith Long & Co. Houston, Texas
• 1989 Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
• 1989 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York City, New York
• 1988 Recent Drawings Here and Abroad, Herbert Palmer Gallery, LA
• 1988 The Morris Museum Biennial, Morristown New Jersey
• 1988 Chicago Art Fair, with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1987 The University of Texas Art Gallery - Texas Artists, Dallas, Texas
• 1987 San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio Texas
• 1987 The Longview Museum, Longview Texas
• 1987 Fun and Brains, The Kraine Club, New York
• 1987 Meredith Long and Company, Houston Texas
• 1987 Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
• 1987 Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
• 1986 ‘Words’ Joy Moos Gallery, Miami Florida
• 1986 Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach Florida
• 1986 The Dog Days of August, Jacquie LittleJohn Gallery, New York
• 1986 Indigestion, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
• 1986 Chicago art Fair, with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1985 Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
• 1985 Ten Painters in Texas, University of Texas, El Paso Texas
• 1985 The Meadows Museum of the Arts, Dallas Texas
• 1985 Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
• 1985 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1984 Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1984 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• 1983 Recent Trends in American Art, The Tampa Museum, Tampa Florida
• 1983 Modern Masters/Contemporary Works on Paper, Max Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1983 The Painted Object Painted, the Herbert Palmer Gallery, LA, CA
• 1983 Art and the Law, The Dallas Museum, Dallas Texas
• 1983 National Drawing Competition, Yale University Art Gallery
• 1983 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1983 Meadows Museum of the Arts, Dallas, Texas
• 1982 The University of Texas Art Gallery, Irving, Texas
• 1982 Meredith Long and Co., Houston, Texas
• 1982 About Face, Laura Carpenter Gallery, Dallas Texas
• 1982 Wunsch Art Center Exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum, New York
• 1982 The Arkansas Art Center, 26th Annual Painting Exhibition, Little Rock Arkansas
• 1981 The Museum of Fine Arts, Eugene Oregon
• 1981 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1981 Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, New York
• 1981 William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
• 1979 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1979 In Context, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
• 1979 Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, Geneva, New York
  

  Public & Private Collections

• Microsoft Corporation
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston
• ATT Corporation
• The Nordstrom Corporation
• Continental Airlines
• Blount Corporation
• Galerie Proarta, Zurich
• Prudential Insurance Company of America
• Montclair Art Museum
• Boston University Art Museum
• United Bank of Houston
• McDonalds Corporation
• Newark Museum
• Jersey City Museum
• Morris Museum
• Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, Houston
• Stevens Corporation
• Arkansas Museum of Contemporary Art
• Zimmerli Museum
• Meredith Long & Co., Houston
• Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York
• The New Jersey State Council on the Arts
• Kimball Museum, Chairperson, Private Collection
• Touche Ross, Inc.
• Noyes Museum
• The Newark Public Library
• Rutgers University
• Houston Memorial Hospital
• The Hyatt Corporation
• Ruth O’Hara, New York
• Maxwell Davidson, New York
• John McEnroe, New York
• Garner Tullis, New York & Tuscany
• Aurobora Press, San Francisco
• Robert Lamb, Los Angeles
• David Alan Greer, Los Angeles
• Marian Boesky, New York
• Herbert Palmer, Los Angeles
• Wendy Olsoff, P.P.O.W., New York
• Sandler/Hudson, Atlanta
  
  

Literature

Loughery, John, ‘Komarin, The Master of the Elemental Image’ at Maxwell Davidson, Arts Magazine 1991

Watson, Edward, ‘Surrealist Loads Canvas’, The New Jersey Star Ledger 1989

Russell, John, ‘The Dog Days of August’, The New York Times 1987

Zimmer, William, ‘Something – But What?, The New York Times 1985

Zimmer, William, ‘A Rich Array…From Newburgh to Newark’, The New York Times 1985

Everingham, Carol, ‘A Comical View of the American Dream’, The Houston Post 1982

Perry, Paloma, ‘Stories in Paint’, The Atlanta Journal 1981

Kutner, Janet, ‘Komarin Shows Strong Work’, The Dallas Morning News 1981

Baker, Ralph, ‘Komarin Paintings and Works on Paper’, The Museum of Art at The University of Oregon, Eugene, catalog essay 1980

Parks, Addison, ‘Gary Komarin New Work at Maxwell Davidson’, ARTS Magazine 1979

King, Sarah S., Art in America, July 2003

Brandenberg, Andreas, Zuger Presse, 'Complex Paintings from Overseas’, Galerie ProArta, 2003

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 Arrives in East Hampton,’ Hamptons Gazette 1998

Foxworth, Janet, ‘Gary Komarin’s The Naming of John Dreamer’, The Atlanta Journal 1997

Reed, Vincent, ‘Komarin Explores the Painterly’ at Klarfeld Perry, Arts Magazine 1993

Lloyd, Amy, ‘Gary Komarin Shows New Expressive Work at Sandler/Hudson, Art in America 1994

Collaborations

Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas, 2004
Segura Press, Tempe, Arizona, 2001
Tandem Press, University of Wisconsin, 2000
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, 2002, 1999
Rutgers University Press, School of Innovative Printmaking, NJ, 1998
Garner Tullis, New York, 2000, 1997