Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett studied photography at Louisiana State University, before completing his BFA at Mount Allison University, in Canada. He then continued his education by working with Sean Kernan through most of the 1990’s. Garrett is a founding member of Kehler Liddell Gallery, and was one of the leaders of New Haven's Photo Arts Collective for its entire 20+ year lifespan.
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HINDSIGHT
March — April 2024
For decades now, Matthew Garrett has worked almost exclusively in color photography. HINDSIGHT, however, is a reinvestigation of approximately 15 years’ worth of black and white negatives, looking for what was missed at the time. In essence, the exhibition is all new work — though the images have been waiting up to 35 years for their time in the sun. The older work clearly reveals the underlying threads that still run through his imagery: humankinds' imprint on the landscape.
Expansion
March 17 - April 17, 2022
For Matthew Garrett, expansion came by seeing the world through a new lens. "I rarely picked up a "real" camera during COVID, but I never put down my phone," states Matthew. "The ever-present camera serves as a notebook for anything and everything that I need to remember, whether that's a loved one's face, a shopping list, or an appealing collection of visual shapes and structures."
Early in his career, Garrett's work centered on finding the structure and form in his daily surroundings, but those formalist bounds loosened over time. Most recently, just by holding and using a different device to make photographs, that initial instinct returned.
These new images celebrate structure (and structures). They compress depth, reveal layers, and feel more succinct than previous efforts. "To me, they stand out as the brief, understandable phrase plucked from the din of a crowded event."