PRESS RELEASE

MARQUEE PROJECTS 

THE TRUTH LOVES ME

Jedd Garet

November 15, 2019 – January 5, 2020

MARQUEE PROJECTS is pleased to announce THE TRUTH LOVES ME, a solo exhibition by artist Jedd Garet.

This is the first time Garet has shown with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be open to the public on Saturday, November 16, from 5 to 7 pm. The exhibition will run from Saturday, November 16, 2019, through Sunday, January 5, 2020.

Informed by Surrealism and aligned with Neo-expressionism, Garet made a name for himself as a young artist, part of the “new painting” or “bad painting” movement of the 1980s that favored a purposely awkward style and pushed figurative painting in a fresh, new direction. During that time his work appropriated modes and motifs especially from Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, who founded the Metaphysical School in 1917. 

In his current body of work, Garet continues to reference surrealist/mannerist ideas and jarring contrasts of color but has traded his use of paint and brush for the computer keyboard to investigate aesthetics of the digital age. His work combines figuration and abstraction in seemingly narrative works, exploring the relationship between man, technology, nature, and art.  With the use of digital media, ambiguous unrelated images become visions of metaphysical landscapes where atmospheric forms and architectural fragments collide in a swirl of invented space. In Garet’s own words, “I seek in my work to transport the viewer, fellow pilgrim, to a deeply strange yet familiar place, the precincts of the unheimliche, the uncanny, to savour the erotics of an enigma, the frisson of wakefully wandering the nebulous cathedrals and arcades of the subconscious.”

Jedd Garet is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker who was born in 1955. He was raised in California, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Garet’s work has been exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally including Robert Miller Gallery, NYC; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC; Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Origrafica, Malmo, Sweden; and Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. Public collections holding works by Garet include The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; the Tate Gallery, London; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; the Honolulu Museum of Art, HI; the Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; and the Portland Art Museum, OR. Garet is the recipient of the 2019 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for mixed-media sculpture.