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Rob Kolomyski
Woodbury, Minnesota

Inver Hills Community College, Instructor

rkolomy@inverhills.edu




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statement

Recently, I have been attempting to mediate my subjective impulses in paint through more diverse and divergent sources and processes. These include collective consumer imagery, art historical references and personal memory. I am interested in using second-hand material for first-person articulations, and how an amalgamation of history, popular culture and autobiography can become a poetic parallel to our own complex make-up.

The divergent narratives created by this synthesizing of sources echo the everyday simultaneous activities of reading and seeing, of moving about the world as a tourist, oscillating between curiosity and distrust, fascination and incomprehension. Sometimes this narrative is from one mark to the next, at other times it may become more epic.  I find the most potential in the awkward space between figuration and abstraction, where category and connection give way to more allusive possibilities.  

 

 

 

bio

born: 1970, Detroit, Michigan

 

education

Michigan State University, MFA, 2007


Eastern Michigan University, BFA, 2002

 

selected publications

Manifest Press, "International Painting Annual," Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011


Garden City Publishing, "Weak Painting" (Exhibition Catalog), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009, p. 40-52


The Open Studio Press, "Studio Visit Volume 8," Boston, Massachusetts, 2009, p.106  

 

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013


Inver Hills Community College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2012


South Texas College, McAllen, Texas, 2011


ŒNeapolitan‚ Gallery 409, Brownsville, Texas, 2011

 

selected group shows

40th International Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville Texas, 2012


Visual Arts Society of Texas 43rd Annual National Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Denton, Texas, Juror: Benito Huerta, Curator, University of Texas at Arlington, 2011


ŒOne for the Road‚ Max Fish Gallery, New York City, New York, 2011


ŒSwipple and Gold‚ Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2009

 

 

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