Jeff Kowatch: Stratus Mountainous Cumulus
The Earl McGrath Gallery
May 25 - August 2006
Gallery Director: 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.
Jeff Kowatch's work has been featured in numerous gallery group shows, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Also, a series of paintings titled "The Twelve Apostles" was exhibited at James Chapel of the Union Theological Seminary at Columbia curated by Earl McGrath in 1997. Jeff Kowatch was born and educated in Los Angeles and now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
May 25 - August 2006
Gallery Director: 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.
Jeff Kowatch's work has been featured in numerous gallery group shows, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Also, a series of paintings titled "The Twelve Apostles" was exhibited at James Chapel of the Union Theological Seminary at Columbia curated by Earl McGrath in 1997. Jeff Kowatch was born and educated in Los Angeles and now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
