Stephen Dolmatch works primarily in gouache and watercolor. His typical
subject matter is the urban and industrial landscape. The work is vividly representational and shares with some photography
the sense that his subjects are found objects—unremarkable in themselves but rich with beauty and expressive force when
appreciated with a distinctive point of view. As Barbara Ball Buff, Museum of the City of New York, wrote, “From the
precisionist painters and photographers of the early twentieth century, through later decades of abstraction and subsequent
hard-edged realism, Dolmatch abetted by his own abstract vision, has distilled his own compelling version of the painted response
to photography.”
Gerard Haggerty wrote in ARTnews that “Dolmatch’s
elegant gouaches have something in common with the oils of Charles Sheeler. . . . Dolmatch’s highways, street corners,
and industrial artifacts project a distinctly utopian aspect, and the way that he uses gouache reminds us that there is moisture
in the air.”
The artist was born in 1956 and lives in New York City.
