Adam Grosowsky: Snow in Jerusalem – New Paintings

Karin Clarke Gallery is pleased to present Eugene painter Adam Grosowsky’s latest work, titled Snow in Jerusalem. The gravity of current world events, as well as painful matters closer to home, inform some of these new paintings. By his own admission,  Grosowsky was shocked by the intensity with which the world tragedies presently unfolding have affected him. He was also distressed by heartbreaking developments touching people close to him: “Everything you do then assumes more gravity.” Other works involve outsized portraits, figures and nudes, as well as interiors opening onto landscapes or city views. Birds often play a part. 

 Grosowsky’s large-scale oil paintings command attention for their bold use of color and intense value contrast, as well as their graphic quality and exquisite formal composition. Precise mastery underlies the artist’s gestural, seemingly casual brushstrokes. For all their dramatic intensity, Grosowsky’s paintings also make space for mystery, for the hidden and the unsaid. His figures often have a pensive quality. They look inward or faraway, implying longings, emotions, a whole inner life the very enigma of which draws us in deeper and deeper as it mirrors our own.

 Grosowsky, one of Oregon’s most sought-after painters, has been exhibiting at Karin Clarke Gallery since 2005. His work has been extensively collected in the Northwest and across the US, both privately and publicly. He received his BA in Fine Arts from Evergreen College in 1981, and an MA (1984) and an MFA (1986) in Printmaking from the University of Iowa, where he studied under Mauricio Lasansky, one of the fathers of modern American printmaking. After moving to Eugene, Grosowsky switched to oil painting as his primary medium. He taught printmaking, drawing, and painting as a full-time faculty at Lane Community College from 1990 until his retirement in 2019.

There will be an opportunity to meet the artist during each of the next two First Friday Art Walks, held respectively on December 1^st and January 5^th, with Artist Talks scheduled at 6PM

Please join us to celebrate this artist’s powerful work!