Art
Art should grab you by the shoulders. It shouldn’t need explanation. Monet said that if words are needed to understand a work of art, then that art has failed.
Yet in the world of identity politics, art uses words to howl and blame. It accuses. By its vitriol it rejects beauty and rails against our better instincts.
You won’t find that here. My art is exploratory. It affirms harmony. It belongs in homes and offices, and in all the places we consider havens.
About the Artist
Holding a degree in in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University, Garner has attended multiple post-graduate workshops with Dan Welden, Ron Pokrasso and other master artists.
His work is in the collections of universities, and private collections in Atlanta, Los Angeles, NYC, Boston, Lithuania and Greece. He displayed etchings in the show Places at the DeCordova Museum, and in a biennale on Mykonos in Greece. Garner exhibited at the Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Recent shows include the Viridian Artists 16th National Juried Exhibition in Chelsea, NY, juried shows at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT; the Fallbrook Arts Center in San Diego, CA; and in a juried show at the Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (2024). Two of his monoprints were exhibited at the Pendle Print Biennial in Lancashire, England.
He works from his New England studio focusing on images that frequently combine painting, photography, watercolor, gouache, cyanotypes, lithographs and etching.
Garner is also the author of The Naxos Quartet, four best-selling novels about ancient Greek gods in the contemporary world, as well as non-fiction works. His breakout podcast, Garner’s Greek Mythology, has listeners in 190 countries (see www.patrickgarnerbooks.com).