C A R S O N   G A R H A R T

Carson Garhart (b. 1982 Gambier, Oh). Ohio native and Los Angeles based Artist. Raised by a painter and a gestalt therapist the ideas of depth psychology and aesthetics gave rise to an increasing interest in the philosophy of time and being. This led to an intense study in sound and music and a degree. His work has been presented at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Human Condition show curated by John Wolf in Los Angeles and most recently a group show, “Artist in Residence” at Bernardo Hale Gallery. 

Garhart’s work centers around time and decay and their relationship to the aesthetics of disappearance. The artist places the normal entropy of an urban scenario into the context of aspect and composition. Paintings, photos, and photos of paintings are presented as inverse  topographies; oblique cartographies predispose their own decay. This is all achieved with the notion that beauty is at once serene, and transient. Inside these dichotomies paintings are simple flowing gestures, interspersed with specific geometric passages. Representational figures move just outside of spectrum as shades of white and pastel hint at shadows, certain times of day, and night.

The artist’s experience of moving through time as a transcendental being is the central essence that this work provides. In this way, process becomes a phenomenological practice of self-discovery.

Education

2000-2002 Kenyon College
2002-2004 Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Recent Exhibitions 

2017 Group show, Bernardo Hale Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Group show,The Human Experience, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Performance,Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Cezzane Exhibition Performance, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2012 Solar Solipsis, Fluct/Ehse Records, Baltimore, MD
2010 Fantastic Planet, Annex Theatre, Baltimore, MD
2009 Matsukaze, Annex Theatre, Baltimore, MD
2008 Performance, Mountain Fold Gallery, New York ,NY
2008 West Nile Style, D’Amelio Gallery, New York ,NY
2004 Founding Member of Silent Barn, Queens, NY 

Recent Work Experience

2016/2017
Preparator at the Getty Center
Preparator at the Broad
Preparator/ Assistant at the David Hockney Studio