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From: garrettart@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:44:24 +0000 (UTC)
Selected by the East Bay Express...
BEST DIGITAL ARTIST IN BAY AREA, 2009
JC Garrett Digital art has come a long way since the era of chrome women, endless
tiled plains, and floating polygons, but it still often looks both
hyperreal and unreal, like the bodiless CGI in movies: silicon-based eye
candy rather than carbon-based self-expression. This is decidedly not the
case with JC Garrett's satirical prints, which, far from exulting in their
state-of-the-art computational muscle, have instead a retro, precomputer
look that recalls the zippy, montage-based commercial styles of the 1960s. While Garrett employs some photographic imagery, he draws most of it with a
mouse, bringing a traditional artistic subjectivity and gesture into these
mash-ups of politics, sex, commerce, and war. In "Candidate 2007," a
colossal Hillary head rests atop media logos, awaiting the cranes that will
hoist it into position. "Fractured Fairy Tales" is Garrett's self-portrait composed of eight
separate images, almost like those old TV ads with the pounding hammer,
tautened rope, and sparking electrodes denoting headache pain in the
floating world of our mediasphere and mindscape. http://www.jcgarrettart.com/2009.htm http://www.eastbayexpress.com/bestof/best_digital_artist/BestOfAward?oid=1156755