STEVEN GARMANIAN

Acrylic Painting & Assemblage

Tsuga Fine Art & Framing is excited to present Octopus’s Garden, a new collection of 16 vibrantly optimistic 3D assemblages, featuring dream-inspired animistic imagery of totem, sentinel and guardian figures by local artist Steven Garmanian.
See an interview with artist Steven Garmanian from an earlier show at Tsuga
here.

What’s this show all about?

After witnessing the loss of starfish in Puget Sound waters, and researching the human impact on the oceans with the devastation of coral reefs, unsustainable fishing practices, and the build up of plastic waste, I decided to create a show, using mostly all recycled materials, composed of imaginary aquatic beings, natural yet embedded with glass and plastic detritus to show the confluence of sea creatures with our human incursion into their domain. 

Friday, April 22 is Earth Day 2022

Earth Day reminds us to think about our impact on the lives of the many other creatures with which we share this planet. It can be depressing, and we can feel helpless by not knowing what we can do to help improve things. But, the good news is that to go from awareness and concern to action is a simple step. So, here’s a suggestion: watch “Seaspiracy” and “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix. Then go to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society website and make a donation to support their good work. They have an Earth Day matching gift program currently.

Note: 10% of all proceeds from this show will be donated to The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

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“As a retired high school English teacher, I now have time to devote myself to art, music, poetry, birding, travel and environmental activism in greater measure. The images in my paintings typically arrive during dreams or in the quiet, meditative state achieved while swimming. I draw many sketches, select those to develop, gather materials, using as much recycled wood as possible, cut and router shapes, select positive and negative space, paint black and colors, assemble details, glue, seal and hang the artwork, ready for showing.

The influences for the images in these paintings range from natural to animistic entities, aquatic or alien beings and creatures of dreams from which figures emerge and dissolve, separate and connect, and sometimes, stay with us in the waking world, carrying warnings from the past and hope for the future.  

‘…the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.’

— T.S. Eliot”

— Steven Garmanian

Octopus's Garden

Previous Exhibition

These assemblages range in size from 12–28”, and are created using recycled wood panels, acrylic paint and mixed media.

 

Octopus’s Garden 4

Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$125

Octopus’s Garden 19

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

Octopus’s Garden 5

20x20”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$150

Octopus’s Garden 11

22x22”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$150

Octopus’s Garden 18

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

SOLD: Octopus’s Garden 1

22x22'“; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

Octopuses Garden 24

8x8”; Acrylic, Wood & Mixed Media

$75

Octopuses Garden 10

14x14”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$125

 
 

Octopus’s Garden 20

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

Octopus’s Garden 15

Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$150

Octopus’s Garden 17

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

Octopus’s Garden, unnumbered

Acrylic, wood &mixed media

Octopus’s Garden 22

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

SOLD: Octopus’s Garden 9

Acrylic, wood &mixed media

Octopus’s Garden 23

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

Octopuses Garden 14

29x29”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$230

Octopuses Garden 12

14x14”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$125

Octopuses Garden 2

29x29”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$250

Octopuses Garden 6

12x12”'; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$195

Octopuses Garden 8

27x27”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$230

Octopus’s Garden 21

8x8”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$75

Octopuses Garden 7

12x12'“; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$195

Octopuses Garden 13

20x20”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$125

Octopuses Garden 16

19x19”; Acrylic, wood &mixed media

$230

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