Art Review: "Harold Garde retrospective showcases his innovative print technique"

BY JORGE ARANGO, PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

Nude Woman (2002), Harold Garde

Self Portrait as a Stranger (1987), Harold Garde

From that perspective, we are invited to contemplate who and what we are. In a way, they are all like the strappos – once removed from their initial state of creation and existence, which gives us an opportunity to consider that we, too, are constantly morphing from one state to the next, one form to another, part of the perpetually spontaneous creation of reality.

Garde thus transforms the act of painting into one of contemplation for the viewer – not just of the images themselves and their hidden meanings, but of ourselves and of the nature of our being.

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