CARL HAMMER GALLERY
740 North Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610 312.266.8512 fax 312.266.8510
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CARL HAMMER GALLERY 740 North Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610 312.266.8512 fax 312.266.8510
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOSEPH GARLOCK
1884 – 1980
Invention and Transformation: An Immigrant’s New World Perspective
Exhibition Dates: March 18 – April 23, 2005 Opening Reception: Friday, March 18, 6:00 – 8:00 P.M.
Nothing inspires as much as the story of the American immigrant population’s adaptation to their new homeland. Jewish and Russian, Joseph Garlock came to these hopeful shores in 1905, a twenty-one year man, looking for the promise of spiritual, economic, and aesthetic fulfillment. He would wait until his retirement from work to realize the latter. From that point on, obsession best describes this man’s commitment to creating art.
Drawing both on his formative years, growing up in Russia, and the wonderment he held for the new world wherein he sought to lay claim to a happy future, Joseph Garlock’s paintings were an overlapping amalgamation of real and imagined experiences, vistas, and popular culture influences. Though he thought of himself as nothing more than a weekend painter/sculptor, and though he spent the balance of his life creating his artwork in relative obscurity, his vision consisted of highly personal interpretations of a wide range of topics and sources. Garlock’s land and seascapes call to mind more than a frequent comparison to Milton Avery. He intuitively visualized and interpreted the abstraction of line, color, and depth of field in nature and made highly inventive use of man and manmade elements within the visual construct.
Doing artwork was an enabling experience for the artist. It had a way of bringing the disparate elements of his old and new life into a dream-like continuum. And the viewer is enabled as well. Garlock’s break from conventional representation gives us yet another way of seeing or experiencing not only the efforts expended in assimilating oneself to another culture, but seeing ourselves as participants of the same struggle and participants in the same search for beauty, context, and meaning in a complex world.
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