Gerome Kamrowski Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Gerome Kamrowski
Early Life and Education Gerome Kamrowski (January 29, 1914 – March 27, 2004) was an American visual artist and pioneer in the surrealist and abstract expressionist Movements in the United States. Born in Warren, Minnesota, he embarked on his artistic journey in 1932 at Saint Paul School of Art (now Minnesota Museum of American Art - MMAA), where he studied alongside Leroy Turner and Cameron Booth—all former students of Hans Hofmann wh
o were also associated with the Abstraction-Création group in Paris. It was from these peers that Kamrowski was introduced to a “kind of expressionist cubism.” By 1933, he received a scholarship to the Art Students League, where he honed his skills under Hofmann’s guidance in New York City. Unfortunately immigration problems had prevented Hofmann from assuming his post. Nevertheless, Kamrowski decided to remain in New York for a short…
