Recent Paintings
November 17 - December 3, 2005
Artist Reception: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Diane Farris Gallery is pleased to present
the first solo exhibition of Vancouver painter Jesse Garbe.
Garbe uses the language of portraiture to investigate the dynamics
of his relationships with family, friends and colleagues. Through
his work, he strives to capture the interaction between painter
with sitter on psychological and physical levels. The process
of intense reflection and perception results in work that visually
comes alive in pronounced, layered strokes of pigment on canvas.
Working with live models, Garbe stresses this interplay between
objective and subjective. The relationships are reciprocal:
his subjects appear in control, even confrontational in some
cases. Included in this exhibit is a portrait of the painter’s
mother from a foreshortened viewpoint, a portrait showing a
glimpse of Garbe in a compromised position, and his art dealer
— wearing a pink tutu — with her small dog on her
lap.
Jesse Garbe was born in 1979 and grew up in the Lower Mainland
of BC. He attended the visual arts program at Langara College
for two years and proceeded to earn his BFA at the Emily Carr
Institute of Art and Design in 2004.
Garbe was awarded the Alvin Balkind Memorial Scholarship in
2003. The scholarship is an annual award given to “a deserving,
innovative and experimental student in the School of Visual
Arts”. Also in 2003, Garbe was invited to exhibit in the
Diane Farris Gallery in an exhibition entitled “Sneak
Preview”.
Jesse Garbe has quickly gained an audience of serious collectors
in the United States and Canada. His work is included in the
Canada Council Art Bank Collection.
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In the Studio, 2004-5
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