Artist Bio
James Gasowski was born in San Francisco, Ca. In 1972 he joined the military and while in the service decided he would become an artist.
In 1976 he went back to California and started his education at San Francisco State University, then attended the Academy Of Art, also in San Francisco.
Given an opportunity to move to Europe, he left school and moved to Kiel, Germany in 1980, where he began to paint and study art on his own. In Europe, after a profound and deeply spiritual experience he started to create a personal symbolic art.
Over the course of the next 10 years he traveled back and forth from Europe to California and New York developing and showing his art. In 1996 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then to Truth or Consequences, N.M. in 2008.
James Gasowski=s art has grown from the spiritual symbolism of his early work through geometrical abstraction, to the calligraphic mark-making of the present work, where his focus is on line and color.
His artwork is in private and public collections in the United States and Europe and has shown in Santa Fe at the Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery Zipp, Phil Space Gallery, at Decorazon Gallery in Dallas, and the Affordable Art Fair in NY, MiamiArt Fair Basel, and RedDot Art Fair in London.
His work was recently selected for the New Mexico State Capitol Collection in Santa Fe.
He is currently represented by Winterowd Gallery in Santa Fe, NM and Rio Bravo Fine Art in Truth or Consequences, NM.