Jeff Kowatch Selected Paintings
Artist: Jeff Kowatch
Exhibition: "Jeff Kowatch: Selected Paintings"
Spring 2007
Fordbrady, Los Angeles
Gallery Director (Earl McGrath Gallery): Dane Jensen
Jeff Kowatch uses his familiar handcrafted oils and pigments to create paintings that possess both a muted sense of depth and radiance. These paintings resulted from a three-step process following the artists viewing of a Parisian exhibition called "Montagne Celeste" or Chinese Mountain Paintings. Kowatch uses metaphors for each step in his process to present the title of his show; Stratus is the process of trying to create a landscape without painting a landscape; Mountainous, to the feelings and ideas he conjured from the viewing, and Cumulus to the combination of the two. Kowatch's work has always been about taking a subject and working on it over and over trying to get to the essence of it.
Exhibition: "Jeff Kowatch: Selected Paintings"
Spring 2007
Fordbrady, Los Angeles
Gallery Director (Earl McGrath Gallery): Dane Jensen
Jeff Kowatch uses his familiar handcrafted oils and pigments to create paintings that possess both a muted sense of depth and radiance. These paintings resulted from a three-step process following the artists viewing of a Parisian exhibition called "Montagne Celeste" or Chinese Mountain Paintings. Kowatch uses metaphors for each step in his process to present the title of his show; Stratus is the process of trying to create a landscape without painting a landscape; Mountainous, to the feelings and ideas he conjured from the viewing, and Cumulus to the combination of the two. Kowatch's work has always been about taking a subject and working on it over and over trying to get to the essence of it.
