Now on view at Palm Beach Culture Gallery - Visualizing Climate Disruption Show - 1/27/23 to 4/8/23

3 Original Graphite/Mixed Media Oil Paintings Selected

Exploring Climate issues for me as an artist, is profoundly influenced by maritime events, and the power of storms. Earth's surface is routinely reshaped by hurricanes, which merges at-risk environments, including many human endeavors.

The 3 Works featured in this show - "Spillway", "Spiral Jetty" and "Aftermath" are oil paintings built on canvas layering the surface with debris and found objects, then painting over them in layers, finally adding a patina of graphite to highlight the work. The absence of color is meant to jar our imagination to signify the threats of man’s encroachment on land and sea. They are on sale at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County Gallery in Lake Worth Beach, FL

MARS LANDING

A large(47” x 24”) playful reductive woodcut edition of 11 - $1,250

Created by artist Ron Garrett in 1997 serenaded the Rovers and Martians celebrating on the Red Planet. Fast forward 24 years and on Feb 18, 2021 Perseverance and Ingenuity completed their 290 million mile and 7 month journey after blasting off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the Atlas V Rocket. Hope you got to watch Mars Landing live – we did!! Enjoy our Universe!

The Reductive Woodcut Process

Used extensively by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, I used a single piece of wood carved in stages, to provide color within the print. This reductive method relies on cutting away each color in the image, printing it, and then cutting back the next color - a layering process of one color on top of another, until the entire surface of the wood block has been exhausted.

Only 5 Prints are available at $1,250 each

Text 561-483-9923 to purchase

his last solo show - pre covid 19 - "trifecta"

This show at Highland Beach Library, FL embodied art from 3 travelling art shows

Garrett brings a selection of Reductive Woodcuts from his show highlighting Biscayne National Parks 50th Anniversary celebration. These pieces hang in Highland Beach City Hall. Monoprints of sunken ships off Hutchinson Island are also featured in the Building Department.

The entire show featuring the sunken ships of the Maritime Heritage Trail are on sale at the Elliott Museum in Hutchinson Island till Dec. 1st

The main Community Center Room in the Library features bold, playful satirical work, and spans several decades of Garrett’s love of the sea, reaching for the Beachcomber in all of us! He cleverly uses traditional etching and woodcut approaches, infused with bits and pieces of humor. His love for the everyday ‘fisher folk’ and their lifestyles is apparent throughout his narrative storyboard etchings of life along the water’s edge. Garrett’s style-often depicts a “Pop” art approach, and the show includes vibrant watercolors, drawings and textured paintings.

Finally, in the Rotunda on the west side of the Library and in the hallways, Garrett has large Graphite/Mixed Media Assemblage paintings of natural disasters, and sculptures of sunken ships. Each piece sings its own special song of the tragedy of lives lost and the bravery of the human spirit. The focus is on the poetry of the forces of nature, decay, as well as the corrosive power of saltwater on human endeavors

Now on view at Palm Beach Culture Gallery - Visualizing Climate Disruption Show - 1/27/23 to 4/8/23