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Richard Garrison
Richard Garrison, artist, grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and after high-school attended North Carolina State University. Before graduating, Garrison left the university to work as a carpenter building houses, eventually in the late 1970's starting his own home-remodeling business in Raleigh. Dissatisfied with construction as a career, he decided to go back to school and pursue a degree in visual art, his first love. After attending classes at the NCSU School of Design for a year and a half, Garrison transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where in 1985 he received his BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in painting. He next attended graduate school in art education at UNC-Greensboro in order to obtain his K-12 teacher's certificate in art, whereupon he began a six-year tenure as a high-school art teacher in Wake County. In 1995 Garrison became a full-time professional artist.
Garrison's work is currently shown in several galleries in North Carolina and Virginia, including his own gallery/studio at 615 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh. For most of his career thus far, Garrison's work in acrylic, oil, and various mixed-media materials, has focused on the inherent expressiveness of the human figure, as well as still-life, rendered in strong color and contrasts of light and dark, and fairly loose brushwork, often by combining realistic detail with total abstraction. His work has earned him numerous awards, one grant, and can be found in many corporate and private collections worldwide. Garrison currently lives in Cary, NC with his wife Van, and a cat and dog.
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