Colors Art Exhibition

Short Biography and Statement

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These abstract photographic art images were developed by Garret Demarest of Palm Springs, CA. Garret's work has evolved over the past 20 years during which he has been using digital photographic medium. His initial interest was in capturing images of objects, and scenery. But, soon his attention turned to people, animals, plants, and flowers as his studies involved psychology and human development including emotional reactions to color and color psychology. His early focus was on “spontaneous portraiture” capturing personalities of people. He was mentored by New York industrial designer, Robert G. Newbauer who encouraged him to capture his “decisive moment” in his originality and storytelling reiterating the famous quote, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Garret’s later career as an organizational development consultant, took him around the world and provided the opportunity to photograph people and places that captured something unique and spontaneous. Now retired, he spends much of his free time immersed in the hobby of photographic art where he manipulates original photographs into abstract images resembling paintings of the “Color Field School” brought to life by Mark Rothko and other abstract impression artists of the Mid-20th Century, thus creatively blurring the lines between photography and painting. In creating these abstract images, he attempts to retain specific colors from the original photograph, often combining colors in unique and unusual combinations giving his work depth, radiance, and excitement. In this volume of abstract images, he has taken original photos of a variety of different things –flowers, water scenes, sunrises, sunsets, and re-envisioned them through his abstract manipulation. His focus on vibrant colors in the color spectrum helped him select images that move through the visual and emotional excitement of both bold color and muted tones while expressing the emotion of abstract impressionism.