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Image: © John Garrett |
Mr. Garrett has been working with the application of textile technologies and imagery
to various materials for the past twenty five years. Currently a full time studio artist,
he taught for many years at colleges and universities in California, including Scripps
College and UCLA. For the past several years he has taught workshops on creativity
and experimental basketry at schools nationwide. |
Image: © John Garrett
"Trinket Lace", 65" x 60"
Wire and various objects (wood, glass, plastic and metal)
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Image: © John Garrett
"Baroque Boat Basket No. 8", 13" x 31" x 11"
Copper strips sewn through hardware cloth,
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Image: © John Garrett
"Cool", 60" x 40"
Aluminum, paint
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"Reunion", 72" x 72"
Aluminum, paint, handmade paper, hardware cloth,
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Selected
Exhibitions |
2006 The Windows Project, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2005 Recycle, Reuse, Recreate, Artspace Gallery, Center for the Arts, Jackson, WY
2004 Inaugral Exhibition, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, NM
2003 Environmental Installation: Paper Wall, UW-River Falls, WI
2002 John Garrett Retrospective, Oceanside Museum of
Art, Oceanside, CA
2001 Textiles, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2001 New Works/John Garrett, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St.
Louis, MO
2000 Constructions: On and Off The Wall, Connell Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
2000 Contemporary Aluminum, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern
Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1999 Men of the Cloth: Contemporary Fiber Art, Loveland
Museum, Loveland, CO
1998 9th International Triennale of Tapestry, Central
Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
1998 Threads: Contemporary American Basketry, Concourse
Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, England
1997 TRASHFORMATIONS: Recycled Materials in American Art
and Design, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1996 Viewpoint: Art as Message, Craft Alliance Gallery,
St. Louis, MO
1995 The New Basket, Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts
Museum, Little Rock, AR
1994 Mastercraftsmen, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville,
FL
1994 Recycle, Reuse, Recreate, an exhibition organized
by Arts Council, Inc. as a cultural presentation of the USA
1993 Subversive Crafts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1993 USA-Today, Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilburg, The
Netherlands
1990 Explorations: The Aesthetic of Excess, American Craft
Museum, New York, NY
1989 Craft Today USA, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
1988 Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
1987 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
1986 Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
1984 Vehta Biennale, Romaanse Kerk, Brussels, Belgium
1982 Art and/or Craft: USA and Japan, Kanazawa, Japan
1981 Made in LA: Contemporary Crafts '81, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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Museum
Collections |
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Erie Museum, Erie, PA
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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Education |
MA 1976 University of California, Los Angeles
BA 1972 Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA
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Awards |
1995 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1983 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
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Please contact the artist for information regarding current gallery representation.
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