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NEILSON FINE ART
OPENING RECEPTION T H U R S DAY, A P R I L 1 2 6 – 8 P M
EXHIBITION RUNS APRIL 12–30
1 5 0 Tu r t l e C r e e k B l v d | S u i t e 2 1 0 | D a l l a s , Te x a s
G ARY KOM A RIN
G A RY
KO M AR IN
Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description of something timeless. For painter Gary Komarin, abstraction has never been a formal dead end. Rather, it has allowed him to challenge the limitations of the style–to make painting ‘include more’ precisely because a recognizable image excludes too much. Komarin has been called a “painter’s painter.” His status in this regard is based on the authenticity of his work, its deep connection to the tradition of modern painting as well as its sustained individuality as an utterly personal voice. Like many of the best artists of his generation, he is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Komarin has
been particularly successful at filtering these influences throughout his own potent iconography. Guston’s influence is evident in Komarin’s merger of drawing and painting, often breaking the picture plane of his rich and elegantly composed color fields with an assortment of private iconic cake and vessel-like objects. Preferring nonart industrial canvas tarps and drop cloths, Komarin eschews traditional painting media and materials. He builds layered surfaces with latex house paint in a thinned out sluice mixed with spackle and water. The house paint offers hybrid colors that seem slightly ‘off’ and the spackle creates a beautifully matte surface. Using color energetically, the quick-drying materials allow him to paint with a sense of urgency, which mirrors the tension created by conflicting renderings of the spontaneous and the deliberate. The conscious and the unconscious or the strange and familiar. The resulting image is one that appears familiar but resists recognition. Komarin lives in the rural hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut.
THE FRENCH WIG COLLECTION
MARGARET GARRETT Margaret Garrett is an American artist and dancer whose richly colored abstract paintings capture the elusive qualities of rhythm and movement. Born in North Carolina and raised in Pennsylvania, she grew up training to be a dancer, and at the age of sixteen left home to join the Pennsylvania Ballet and later danced with the Cleveland Ballet as a soloist. In her early twenties, she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color. Garrett’s approach to painting is strongly influenced by her early training in dance. “When I begin working on a new piece, I see the paper or canvas as an empty stage and the line as movement. Texture, form, the way that colors interact, all are different manifestations of motion, rhythm, and energy.� Garrett often works in ongoing series, developing a language and following it as it morphs and evolves. Her Tuning Fields series, now numbering over 300, uses line-driven layers of color to create loose yet formal fields of motion that are abstract and at the same time evocative of shapes and patterns found in nature. In the Choros series of paintings, collages, and woodblock prints, the central preoccupation is
with an interplay of shapes that have a solid, even muscular form, to convey a sense of motion and choreography. After turning 50, in a quest to find shapes for her pieces, Garrett started dancing again, filming herself dancing and using film clips and screen shots from the videos for her work. This process led to the discovery of an additional way of drawing and finding form in a series of mixed media pieces and video art. Margaret Garrett’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries and museums across the United States. In 2018, she was awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. Museum collections include the Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall Museum. She currently lives and maintains a studio on Shelter Island, NY.
CONTRADANCE | 57x66
TOPSY TURVY | 74x60
SOLO |
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RITUAL | 74x60
W I LL I A M
MC LURE
William Rankin McLure IV, a Louisiana native, has been creative since he was a young child and has been honing his God-given flare for art and design ever since. He graduated from The Southern Institute of Design, where he was active in the American Society of Interior Designers as a student. William’s work, an array of styles ranging from realism, to drawings, to figures, to abstracts, has garnered the attention of high-end designers and publications including Mark D. Sikes, Lonny Mag, Domino Magazine, and Southern Living. William now resides in Birmingham, Alabama with his beloved companion, Ran, a playful Weimaraner.
PAINTING XVII | 60x48
PAINTING XVI | 48X60
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B L A K E LY
Anne Neilson, renowned artist, author, and owner of Anne Neilson Fine Art in Charlotte, NC, is thrilled to be partnering with her daughter, Blakely Neilson. During the month of April, they will be hosting a pop up art gallery, Neilson Fine Art, in Dallas, Texas. Neilson Fine Art’s exhibit, UNTITLED, will showcase the works of Gary Komarin, Margaret Garrett, and William McClure. Blakely Neilson holds a degree in finance from SMU Cox School of Business and an art history degree from SMU Meadows School of the Arts. Like her mom, she has a passion for art, design, and travel, which has inspired her to take a trip around the world in May 2018 to connect with new artists and art dealers. Together, they are excited to bring you Neilson Fine Art of Dallas during the month of April.
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