Pucker Gallery

Gerald Garston

Represented by Pucker Gallery since 1970

BORN: 1925 in Waterbury, Connecticut
DIED: 1994 in Leyden, Massachusetts

If artists are indeed here to offer constructive criticism of life's disorder, then Gerald Garston was among our kindest but most uncompromising of critics. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Garston was also a student of Karl Metzler, Louis Boucher, and Josef Albers. In Garston’s own words, Albers “exerted the greatest influence” on Garston, and his color theories can be found throughout Garston’s works. Additionally, Garston taught Albers’ class Interaction of Color for many years at the Creative Arts Center in New Haven, Connecticut and Paier College in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Garston distilled the randomness and multiplicity of our visual world into its essences, ordered in deceptively simple paintings to look behind the objects that clutter and confuse our lives to see the ideal; to see shapes, structures, and colors, intensified and purified, in pleasing and rational coexistence. The effect of contemplating a Garston painting is profoundly meditative. Garston's work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Rose Museum, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.

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