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The practice of orchestrating the colors in a painting to register in a particular key is my approach. 

The elements in my current Interspace Series, begun in 2023, include sunlight (or a strong light source), paper, color, and form; selected fragments from my photographs of various objects; hand-painted and printed papers; and a focus on transparency and collage.  As a painter and collage artist, my Interspace Series explores translating three-dimensional paper shapes into two-dimensional color designs, further exploring the relativity of color, figure/ground, and negative space. These studies for my large-scale oil paintings are focused on space, shapes, shadow, and light. Visually, shadows can be understood as empty or negative space, but in my painted studies these shadows become distinct forms that I balance with the paper shapes, giving both equal value. My transition into the Interspace series started in 2022 and was inspired by Peter Weibel's book Negative Space and the influence of modernist sculpture. These explorations in two-dimensional planar space based on three-dimensional models have led to a new conceptual shift in my work, as I now explore the sculptural potential of the forms themselves in the three-dimensional world.  

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"In each phase of her career, Gardiner has excavated new territories and applied new techniques while never losing sight of her lifelong goal: to employ the intrinsic qualities of paint to their fullest extent as she captures the infinite varieties of color and light that give her joy."

                                                         - Wendy Smith

Ginnie Gardiner’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US since 1985. Gardiner received her B.F.A. from Cornell University in 1974. She is widely known for her practice of creating collages that serve as studies for her paintings. In 1997 Gardiner curated a collage group exhibition, “The Re-Associated Image”, at Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her collages and collage-based paintings have been shown in many exhibitions at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, including “And I Quote”, 1998, “Talking with Tiepolo”, Solo Exhibition, 2000, “Collage, Signs and Surfaces”, 2005,”The New Collage”, 2006, “Daughters of the Revolution: Women & Collage”, 2009 and “In Translation: Austin, Deem, Gardiner”, 2010. In 2018 she had a Solo Exhibition, “The Color Prophecies”, at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, New York. In 2019, Gardiner’s work was included in the exhibition, “unfoldingobject”, curated by Todd Bartel, at the Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, Massachusetts. In 2021, Gardiner had a Solo Exhibition, “GINNIE GARDINER: INTERLUSION: Recent Painting & Collage”, at the Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and a two person exhibition, “Echo: Ginnie Gardiner & Amy Talluto, Recent Painting and Collage”, curated by Kathy Greenwood, Director, Art and Culture Program, at the Albany International Airport, Albany, New York.

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