GARRISON GUNTER » Design

Fabric Workshop

Garrison — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:41:53 +0000

During the summer of 2008 I had the opportunity to participate in an apprenticeship program at the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Under the guidance of Lonnie Graham, I participated in an accelerated apprenticeship program during a time when the FWM was moving their studio and office spaces. Because of the move, we worked with local screen printer Lauren Rossi in her Philadelphia studio when it came time to create our films, screens and repeat prints. Unfortunately it seems that Lauren’s site does not have any of her work on it, so I’ve linked to a blog that shows one of her pieces. I titled the piece “Kahua o Mali’o (a place of comfort)” and it was featured in the 2009 Penn State Graduate Exhibition in the Hub Gallery and in the Zoller Gallery during the spring 2009 1st year MFA exhibit.

Kate Davies at PSU

Garrison — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:05:02 +0000

Garrison Gunter Couch

Sara Meltzer Show

Garrison — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:28 +0000

Curating an MFA show is like herding cats: very challenging to do and visually arresting when done. In Prequel, there is no theme or common thread except that all twenty-two artists chose and were chosen by the same university. They’ve shared space and ideas, but each artist is wholly unique. Instead of imposing one theme or implying an artificial common interest, the work is allowed to exist as a cross-section of the ideas being explored by young artists today. Communication, identity, nostalgia, technology, interconnectedness, relationships, space, abstraction and uncertainty are addressed in a wide variety of media. Anyone who has participated in an MFA program knows that during those two short years time is condensed. Ideas move at warp speed because the artists are entirely immersed in both practice and feedback. Therefore, when any MFA group exhibition opens, it is, with any luck, already outdated—a precursor to the current narrative. This show represents a moment in time for each of the artists—a snapshot of the recent past and a hopeful indicator of the future.

—Heather Darcy, Curator

ArtCat – Chelsea – Sara Meltzer Gallery – Prequel

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Screen Printing

Garrison — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:17 +0000

Bryan Standing in front of 12 yards of my custom 1 color

So I’m trying to get back into posting to my site and I forgot that flickr had a much nicer entry system than wordpress does out of the box…Hopefully in the next month or so, this fabric will be used to upholster a couch I got from James Johnson.