"I want to connect to the source of life, transcend my physical self, time and space. "For Gary Markowitz, the painting is first a sensation. His work begins with a meditation. He must silence his own battles to allow the epiphany of true meaning and value as in the etymological sense. A passage or peek into another dimension allows this perspective. The emotion is a natural high, almost orgasmic. And the color bursts. First color.

He seemed to have settled on canvas in a series of accidents. Something seems to invade the body of the artist, who compares his state to a shamanic trance: "Life emerges on the canvas. I seek not to deliver any message. I'm just revealing what I perceive and feel. My goal is to share these emotions with the viewer. Therein it would be pointless to dissect, analyze or describe his works. Painting by Gary Markowitz is gazing with calm deliberation. We must afford the impact of color. Allow up the experience in itself.

Gary Markowitz makes his own mediums to paint. In this he facilitates the superposition of successive layers by varying drying times by different pigments. Otherwise, the techniques he employs are those of the great masters, especially in regards to the forms and light. He likes good figurative painting - the Turner or Modigliani, for example. Yet, gradually he shifted from figures as one day, looking at the trousers on which he wiped his brushes mechanically, he felt the sensation of simplicity, and yet intense and complete beauty. After that he began the search to reproduce that feeling in part in large format. This experience led him on the path of abstraction and minimalism.

Today he combines all this to seek the sublime. If he still uses the figure is simply to permit the viewer a moment to orient attention, then allow the space to feel his or her own significance through the colours. It could be the semblance of two columns as a recurring shadow of an ancient ruin or distant destination. Perhaps someone, a woman, an angel can be ... "I give a few key tracks, but I leave it to the color. Because it directly affects the chakras and helps open the mind. Often people do not see the same thing I myself see in my paintings, but most often they experience the same feelings. Art is the energy, emotions and intentions that are transmitted. "
That is why Gary likes his paintings exhibited in public places. They are made with an intention toward sharing. His painting suggests a pathway to allow for the possibility that one may change one’s state of consciousness.

The artist does not arise as a hero, nor moreover seek to be guru himself. There exists no dogma, or pretension. At most there exists perhaps an opportunity for emotional intensity, or an experience to pique curiosity with a taste for mystery. Before the angels, and his discovery of the "Akashic records", he earned his comfortable life in Hawaii, working for others in the artistic trades as artistic director, photographer, writer, publisher and designer.

He developed himself as a painter through his existential experiences that began in 1993. He has sold over 500 paintings to collectors worldwide. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Hawaii, Houston, Portland, Cadaqués and Barcelona.

He continues to publish books on art and spirituality. He also has lectured on the symbolism of the angel as it was revealed through his experiences.
His own artistic influences began early, as his own mother, Marilyn Markowitz, also was a painter, and art teacher. She received the honor of listing in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in International Women. She has exhibited in over forty museums. "My mother was a profound influence, she and of her artist friends who came to the house embodied the art spirit in appreciating and celebrating life." Gary was born October 28, 1951 in Tucson, Arizona, and he spent formative years of his childhood in Japan. At 37, he located himself between the two continents in the Hawaiian Islands, and then again relocated 13 years later to another island, a small deserted island off Cadaqués, Spain.
Now installed in the South of France near Pézenas, Gary Markowitz continues to paint from inner necessity, without compromise. Nature and femininity remain for him inextinguishable sources of inspiration, just as these sources have influenced the lives and careers of many artists who preceded him. And when we compare his paintings to that of Mark Rothko, he replied: "This closeness perhaps is related to the possibility that we have experienced similar mystical experiences. I would guess that he did not paint this way otherwise...