CONTACT
garykoenitzer@gmail.com
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ARTISTS STATEMENT
I see my work as a constant observation and exploration of the human experience. I have a diverse variety of exploratory areas such as vivid portraits, vast urban or natural vistas, symmetry, negative space, photography, non objective painting, digital painting, video, and installation art. I am also a musician, which frequently inspires a pattern like rhythm and melody in my work. More recently I have developed a stylistic method of using fragmented lines to first shape the entire content of a work while I apply color, shading and texture from multiple mixed mediums. I call this style ” Linear Mix “. I however, do not limit my work to one style. I am continuously experimenting.
The remarkable mystery of what makes some art works profoundly engaging is a real fascination and inspiration for me. Parts of this mystery, I believe, may contain a pure intellectual perception as well as how one will process and define a visual, audio or full sensory experience to be “beautiful”. This is of course concurrently, highly individual as well as capable of spanning across all peoples, ages and cultures. It is also my belief that art which has an open focus on aesthetics is the most eternal and resilient of all art. In more recent art movements aesthetics may be down cast as if shallow and superficial in favor of conflict, concepts and messaging, as if a higher more meaningful pursuit. I believe the exact opposite, that aesthetics are a driving life force which works as a powerful gift of inspiration and motivation. I feel within myself that existence and this universe is an expression of pure beauty in ways we have yet to fully understand. This is what I am often exploring. Much of my art is both the simple yet infinitely complex exploration of what this universal aesthetic driving force feels like however I might try to express it. I have a passionate feeling that the mystery of it all may well have something to do with the essence of our origin and our purpose.
2004-Present
Artist and Founder KoArtPro.com (Koenitzer Art Productions) is an art group and website to promote the arts seeking artistic ways to inspire, improve and give back to the world in general.
Selected Gallery Exhibitions, with multiple subsequent exhibitions within most.
Time Square exhibition short film video will be released July 2012. New York, New York
Seven art works will be exhibited at the Artists Wanted party featuring Questlove of The Roots / Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. June 18th 2012.New York, New York.
Seven paintings will be shown on a 21 ft by 12 ft digital sign in Times Square! This summer 2012 details to follow. New York, New York.
SHAZAM, MAC exhibtion May 4th to May 23rd 2012, Medford NJ.
McGOPA, SPP Galleries, juried art exhibition, Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Conshohocken, PA
Perkins Center of the Arts, juried photography 31 Exhibition, Moorestown NJ
APW Gallery, juried art exhibition, Something Different, New York, New York
Washington’s Square, 70th Anniversary juried art exhibition, New York, New York
Kimmel Center, Summer Solstice, juried art exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Icebox Crane Arts Center, InLiquid juried art exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Hampton Arts Conventions Center, juried art exhibition, Halls of Art, Hampton, VA
The Noyes Museum of Art, juried art exhibition , DA Seven, Hammonton, NJ
Medford Art Center, juried photography exhibition, Medford, NJ
F.U.E.L Collection, juried art exhibition, Grand Small Works, Philadelphia, PA
Medford Art Center, juried art exhibition, Medford, NJ
DaVinci Art Alliance, juried art exhibition, New Concepts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Stories Auction,Bidding for Good, Philadelphia PA
The Enclaves, Duel art exhibition, “The Art of Gary and Nicole Koenitzer “, Philadelphia, PA
Muse Gallery, juried art exhibition, Small Works Show, Philadelphia, PA
Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery, juried art exhibition, Two, Asbury Park, NJ
Tyme Gallery, Expo XI juried photography exhibition, Havortown, PA
Artbride Prallsville Mill Gallery, juried art exhibition, Stockton, NJ
Duane Morris, Art Auction, Philadelphia, PA
Sassafras, Duel art exhibition, Gary and Nicole Koenitzer Philadelphia, PA
Gallery 125, juried art exhibition, Winterlude, Trenton, NJ
Kate Lemay Gallery, Duel exhibition, Gary and Nicole Koenitzer, Medford, NJ
Red Sky, Duel art exhibition, Gary and Nicole Koenitzer, Philadelphia, PA
Newark NJ Gateway Complex, juried art exhibition Newark, NJ
Omar’s Cafe, First Friday Show, Byrn Mawr, PA
TELEVISION
2007
Featured on 30-minute segments of Princeton’s cable TV30 talk show Talk to Me with host Natasha Sherman Topic: “Artists- from obscurity to a house hold name”
2006
Television: Featured on 30-minute segments of Princeton’s cable television’s TV30 talk show Talk to Me with host Natasha Sherman. Topic: “The art of Gary and Nicole Koenitzer”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Painting titled “Guggenheim” published on the cover of award winning book titled Mad to Live by Randall Brown | MORE INFO
Painting titled “The Script” Published in aroundphilly.com, June 2011, Philadelphia MORE INFO
platform58, Eyes, Issue 018, e-zine | MORE INFO
2010
Sally Friedman, Medford exhibit examines creativity and genetics, Courier Post , August 14, 2010, New Jersey
Mac asks: Is art in the ‘Jeans’?, South Jersey Local News , July 21, 2010, New Jersey
platform58, Paint, Issue 015, e-zine
Metro International Press, The Art Fair Gets Serious, Bruce Walsh, July
2009
South Jersey Magazine, The Art of Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 5, New Jersey
Philadelphia Stories, Spring 2009, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Art Matters, January/February, Philadelphia, PA
2006
Philadelphia Stories, Winter 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Le May, Kate, Artist to Artist, Ovations Newsletter, February, Medford, New Jersey
Courier Post, July, New Jersey
2005
Philadelphia Stories, Winter 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Stories, Summer 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Le May, Kate, Artist to Artist, Ovations Newsletter, February, Medford, New Jersey
Courier Post, July, New Jersey
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