Larry Horowitz
Born in 1956 in New York City, Larry Horowitz is a distinguished landscape painter with a deep reverence for the natural world. A graduate of SUNY Purchase, Horowitz was the assistant to the legendary Wolf Kahn. His illustrious career includes over 90 solo exhibitions, and his work has been featured in prominent corporate and private collections, including IBM, General Electric, and Johnson & Johnson. Horowitz’s paintings have also been honored in the prestigious Arts-In-Embassies program.
Horowitz developed an interest in art at a very young age. At first his interest lay in sculpture. That ended when his mother was late registering him for art classes and the only option remaining was oil painting. Says Horowitz, “that was the last temper tantrum of my childhood. I started copying the old masters; Titian, Vermeer, and Rembrandt were my favorites. When I asked my parents to buy me linen to paint on, they couldn’t afford it, so my mother ripped down her living room drapes for me to use.”
After college, Horowitz was exposed to Abstract Expressionism in New York City. He became an artist assistant in the studios of Wolf Kahn, Emily Mason, and Jennifer Bartlett. He also had the great pleasure to meet and visit the studios of Paul Resika and Willem de Kooning. In this milieu, Horowitz absorbed the “special sauce” needed to become an artist and to develop his own unique viewpoint. Horowitz believes that his best paintings hover between abstraction and reality.
Horowitz’s work is celebrated for its masterful use of texture and color, which breathe life into the landscape with a sense of wonder and discovery. As echoes of a fading past resonate through the scenes he captures, his background in Abstract Expressionism allows him to blend reality with abstraction, creating a distinctive visual language that is uniquely his own.
