JAMES GASOWSKI

James Gasowski - Urban Scrawl - 2006 - Acrylic on Canvas 52x45 in.

James Gasowski - My funny Valentine - 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 48x48 in.

James Gasowski - Flesh and Fantasy - 2008 - Acrylic on Canvas 52x46 in.

James Gasowski - After the Dawn - 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 64x58 in.

James Gasowski - Old Haunts New Digs - 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 48x52 in.

James Gasowski - Kitty, Kitty - 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 46x52 in.

James Gasowski - Double Trouble - 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 38x36 in.

James Gasowski - Another Indian Summer - 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 48x48 in.

James Gasowski - In the Studio - 2006 - Acrylic on Canvas 61x48 in.

James Gasowski -All Fall Down- 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas 24x26 in.

James Gasowski - Gaza - 2006 - Acrylic on Canvas 30x34 in.

James Gasowski - You Dirty Boy - 2006 - Acrylic on Canvas 55x54 in.

DECORAZON gallery is proud to present artist, James Gasowski.

“My art is fueled by a desire to create, by way of line and color, a language of symbols and mark-making that allows me the absolute freedom to speak of the art of living and the act of painting as one in the same; a poetry of being. This poetry can be hard, fast, quiet, chaotic, ordered, simple and complex all at once. It can be in black and white, shades of grey, or full of living color. That is the language of life.”
-- James Gasowski

Living color very much describes the work of James Gasowski, born in San Francisco, California, in 1954. It is also a very accurate description of this thoughtful and soulful artist’s life. In 1972, he joined the military and while in the service decided to take the route of an artist instead. So in 1976, he moved back to California and began his education at San Francisco State University, before attending the Academy Of Art, also in San Francisco.

With an exciting opportunity to relocate to Europe, he left art school and headed for Kiel, Germany in 1980, where he began to paint and study art on his own. In Europe, after a profound and deeply spiritual experience, he created a personal, symbolic art called “Art Humanity”. Over the course of the next 10 years he traveled between Europe, California, and New York developing and showing his art. Finally, in 1996, he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he resides today.

James Gasowski’s art has grown from the spiritual symbolism of his early work through geometrical abstraction, to the calligraphic mark-making of his present work.

He has recently shown in Santa Fe at the Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery Zipp, Phil Space Gallery and at Decorazon Gallery in Dallas.

He is currently represented by Decorazon Gallery in Dallas, Texas and Winterowd Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

James Gasowski - resume
James Gasowski - website

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