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Jeff Kowatch
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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.
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