For his seventh Robischon Gallery solo exhibition, Gary Komarin offers paintings on paper from his ongoing “Vessel” series, along with two, oil on canvas works created in the artist’s well-recognized intuitive abstract approach. Komarin’s mentor, artist Philip Guston wrote supportively about Komarin’s work as, “plastic, sensitive and serious," stating, “Komarin’s feeling for line, space and form comprises an innate sense of structure.” Additionally, engaged titles such as Boo Radley which invokes the Harper Lee character from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,” take the viewer into a deeper experience within the artist’s intent. Of the “Vessel” paintings, Komarin notes the importance and ubiquity of the object throughout history by saying, “All cultures have had to find ways to transport water and other fluids from one location to another–water, milk, wine, blood – for practical and ceremonial reasons. I have long been fascinated by the structures and shapes of these traditional objects, particularly those of the most humble and demure variety. An early Egyptian, Mayan or Greek vessel has great poise and stature. Painting vessels is an activity that has allowed me a great deal of playful variation.”