garygarbett
yesterday's cardboard cowboys
photographic sequence
18" x 24", © 2010 gary garbett
artist statement
Since childhood, my passion to create has driven me to search for the simplest truths within the world I live in. Throwbacks of pop culture have always decorated my life and their influences are directly reflected in my work. The nightly news, advertisements, pulp magazines, film, and music all play an extremely important role in my work as each influence become layers of spirit and emotion in my mixed media paintings, photography, and film. It's those ordinary and mundane gifts that I find in each normal day that spill the truth and the essence of my life into my art.
Popular culture has always filled my life with vivacity, passion, and a yearning for creativity. Admittedly, I've long been an artist that gets lost in the contemporary message of my work. I do after all own it. With that, the process of creation and the object as art become my unified gospel. I absorb my surroundings, dissect it, rearrange it, and spit it back out to the world as a reinterpretation of the original, and on occasion, transform it into something totally original within itself.
...all the best,
Gary
artist résumé
Education
2010 Master of Interdisciplinary Studies in Studio Arts,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Concentration in Fine Arts, Painting, and Photography
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
2008 Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Study,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Concentration in Communication Arts and Media Studies
Graduated Cum Laude
2008 Career Studies Certificate in Photography,
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA
Concentration in Photography, Minor in Internet Applications Development
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Exhibition Highlights
2010 Thesis Exhibition, Master of Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis Exhibition,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA at Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
2008 Rawls Museum Annual Juried Exhibition,
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, Juror: Nancy Sausser
2005 Meandering & Escapism (Solo Exhibition),
Avenue 805, Richmond, VA
Flashback, Flash Forward Juried Exhibition,
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA 2004
Searching Truths (Solo Exhibition),
West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV
Curator: Robert Villamagna
2003 Searching Truths (Two-Person Exhibition),
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
40th Rawls Museum Arts Juried Exhibition,
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
Merit Award,
2003 10th Annual Juried Regional Art Exhibition
Jo Ann Rose Gallery, Reston, VA
Equal Merit Award,
Juror: David Tannous
Annual Juried Photography Exhibition,
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
2nd Place Award,
Juror: Jeffrey Allison
2002 Rawls Museum Annual Juried Exhibition,
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
1st Place Award
Biennial 2002 Juried Exhibition,
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News VA
Juror: Philip Pearlstein
Art on the Half Shell,
Urbanna, VA
Best In Show Award,
Juror: Paul DePasquale
1998 Icons, Dreams, & Wishes, (Solo Exhibition),
Phenomenon Gallery, Richmond, VA
1995 Paint + Word, (Two-Person Exhibition),
Mabey Gallery, Richmond, VA
Curator: Martha Mabey
1994 Crucifiction of the Feminine,
Mabey Gallery Richmond, VA
Curator: Martha Mabey
Annual Humor Fine Art Exhibition,
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
Art on the Wing,
Richmond International Airport, Richmond, VA
Juror: Beverley Reynolds, Richard Waller
Artomotives (Solo Exhibition),
Williamsburg Art Center, Williamsburg, VA
Images '94, Regional Juried Exhibition,
Hub Galleries, Penn State University University Park, PA
Juror, Elizabeth Osborne
1993 Sylvan J. Rienks Memorial Competition,
Gallery West, Alexandria, VA
Second Place Award,
Juror: Patrick Craig
Greater Reston Arts Center Annual Juried Exhibition,
Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
Juror: Jeremy Strick
Central South Art Exhibition,
Nashville Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN
Juror: Judith Ellen Stein
Florida National 1993,
Florida State University Gallery and Museum, Tallahassee, FL
48th National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition,
Colorado Springs, CO
Juror: Warren Wolf
CCA Competitive Exhibition '93,
Community Council for the Arts, Kinston, NC
Juror: John Beerman
1992 Dimensions 29th Annual Exhibition,
Sawtooth Building Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Award of Excellence and 1st Place Award
Juror: David N. Lauderdale
Route 66 Revisited National Juried Exhibition,
Red Mesa Art Center Gallup, NM
and Near Northwest Arts Council, Chicago, Ill,
Measuring Up National Juried Exhibition,
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts Virginia Beach, VA
Juror: Brooke Alexander
56th National Midyear Exhibition,
Butler Institute of American Art Museum,
Youngstown, OH, Juror: Terry Dintenfass
bio and contact
Contact info
Gary Garbett
PO Box 123
Crozier, VA 23039
Have questions?
Drop me an email.
The insequential sequence
56 page exhibition catalog and book is available for order.
