Recent Biography
For the last 25 years Southern California-based artist Jacques Garnier has been contributing to the cultural production of fine art photography on a national and international scale. From abstraction to conceptual-driven archival work, Garnier has been featured in galleries and museums around the world including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CAFA, Chinese Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Rencontres Internationales de Photographie, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, and many more.
While Garnier’s earlier work concentrated on imagery of urban redistribution and repurposing in the American landscape his more recent work has taken a more minimalist tone, using abstractions and negative space in an effort to still the chaos that ceaselessly surrounds us. All of Garnier’s projects share these common elements: exacting framing, elimination of superfluous, compelling graphics, stringent attention to detail and a meditative calmness.
Garnier’s work is held in numerous museum permanent collections including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Laguna Art Museum; Southeast Museum of Photography; University of California, Irvine Special Collections & Archives.