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Sid Garrison, Colored Pencil Drawings at Pastine Projects. Opening May 11 from 3 to 5pm
Sid Garrison (1954-2021) was a native of Wichita, Kansas, whose artistic journey brought him to San Francisco where he exhibited his work for over thirty years. He returned to Kansas in 2014 and his last shows were at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Kiosk Gallery. Sid’s artistic legacy is characterized by his inimitable drawings.
In the realm of artistic innovation, Sid Garrison stood as a luminary, renowned for his innovative use of colored pencils that transcended their traditional role. Garrison normally avoided generic labels for
(Image: August 26, 2010, colored pencil on paper, 28 x 28inches)
his images, but when one recent viewer described them as “Colored-Pencil Paintings,” Garrison accepted the description. With painstaking precision, he applied vibrant hues to Strathmore paper, building up intricate cross-hatchings layered into a rich waxy surface that invites us to lose ourselves in their captivating depths. The variation of idiosyncratic shapes, vibrant colors, and stippled patterns attract the eye with their spontaneity and lack of premeditation.
Through his work, Garrison presents to us his inner life as a series of stunning visual tableau vivants. In 2008, Garrison wrote “I try to tease out atmospheres and memory fragments of daily life by various means as I draw. The measure I set for myself is to make each drawing considerably unique. The resulting body of work functions like a collection of short stories.”
Remarkably, after days or even weeks of meticulous labor, Garrison's compositions possess a seamless quality that belies the hand of the artist. Each stroke bespeaks a narrative of spontaneity and unbounded creativity. Far from being mere products of preconception, Garrison's works exude a magnetic allure that eludes facile categorization, beckoning us into a realm of profound aesthetic contemplation.
Garrison’s work has been shown in Japan, Australia and Canada. Nationally, it has been shown at Gallery Joe (Philadelphia), Knoedler & Co. Project Space (New York), Danese (New York), Limn Gallery (San Francisco), Patricia Sweetow Gallery (San Francisco) and Sherry Frumkin Gallery (Santa Monica). In addition to private collections, his work has been collected by The Wichita Art Museum, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Arkansas Arts Center and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.
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