Jen Garrido

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Jen Garrido

Artist

Jen Garrido was raised in Los Angeles and received her BFA in painting at Sonoma State University and her MFA at Mills College in Oakland.

She was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA (2002-2006), a K-through-eighth-grade art teacher at Synergy School in San Francisco for four years and also designs stationery with Melissa Altman under the name Dog and Pony Show.

She has participated in numerous Selected Exhibitions and has had Solo Exhibitions at San Francisco MOMA Artist Gallery, Julie Baker Fine Art (Nevada City, CA), New Paintings, Branch Gallery (Durham, NC), Doe (San Francisco, CA), The Secret Café (Berkeley, CA), Fresh Paint, Olive Hyde Gallery (Fremont, CA) and Sweet, Mesh Gallery (Sebastopol, CA).

"I construct my work using a delicate balance of choice and process. I begin each piece by building up chromatic layers of paint with fluid mixtures of color. As I work, I pay attention to the way the colors and forms touch and how they bleed into each other. I carve out and paint around negative shapes using a soupy mixture of white to create icing-like white areas of paint."

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