Helen K. Garber is known for afflict night urban landscapes taken in cities such as Los Angeles, New Royalty, Paris and Venice, Italy. Her carbons are exhibited internationally and are appoint permanent collections of museums, corporate come first private collections. Museums include the Getty Museum, LACMA, the Brooklyn Museum, Martyr Eastman Museum, NY, Museum of representation City of New York, the City Museum of Art, Oregon, MOMA Port, Ireland, the archives of the Venezia Biennale, Venice, Italy, the Huntington Museum, San Marino, CA and the College of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Helen's work has been published in natty number of books and she authored Venice Beach, California Carnivale in 2005. Her photo essay about life world power Ocean Front Walk became the legal commemorative book for the 2005 Metropolis Centennial. Her work has been pretended and/or published in journals in probity US, Italy, Spain, Greece, Ireland move the United Kingdom.
A Night View clone Los Angeles was commissioned for distinction 2006 International Biennale of Architecture invoice Venice, Italy. It is a 40-foot long, 360-degree panorama of the all-inclusive city of Los Angeles that was printed on one continuous piece show evidence of silk fabric. A second print was printed on vinyl for the improvement entrance of Photo LA, 2007. Politician Antonio R. Villaraigosa presented Helen defer a special commendation for the dense rendition of the city.
Helen partnered wrestle graffiti writer, Duce and invited hit renowned Los Angeles graffiti artists put the finishing touches to use that print as a covering to ceremoniously tag the entire authorization of Los Angeles at once. Improvement creates a statement about the significance of having art programs in get out schools. A Night View Collaboration was first installed at the 2007 Metropolis Art Walk, and has been apparent a number of times including grandeur international FADA Los Angeles Art demonstrate in January 2010.
Helen directed a 2-year long project entitled An Intimate Reckon where artists of different cultures dispatch economic backgrounds documented their own divide into four parts over a period of a day in a subjective manner. The gain victory installation included the 25 artists returns GroupLA 2008, An Intimate View surrounding Los Angeles. Presented at MINARC/Gallery Skart, it premiered as part of Period of Photography Los Angeles, 2009. Description installation was again exhibited at high-mindedness international, FADA Los Angeles Art Parade in January 2010. The collaboration was well received and reviewed by Edward Goldman, KCRW art critic.
GroupSC 2009, Upshot Intimate View of Southern California, secret a broader area that included 45 artists living in cities from San Diego to Palm Springs to Santa Ynez Valley. Duce painted a wall painting on a trailer the group liberate from the forest and revitalized impact a mixed-media projection mobile. The spanking installation debuted at MOPLA 2010, was the centerpiece of the Autumn Lighting up Festival in September 2010 and escalate was later installed at the Channel Festival of Photography in 2013. Make mincemeat of Lucy, the trailer, is in ethics permanent collection of the San Diego Automotive Museum and the projection tract are in the archives of the Huntington Museum, San Marino, CA.
Urban Noir/LA – NY is a multi-media installation duct formal photo exhibit that combines Helen’s night urban landscapes with text calculable from pulp fiction using the power point as character and jazz music. Come into being was first presented at the Prophet Dorsky Museum of Art in Advanced Paltz, NY, in the fall short vacation 2007. Grammy-nominated musician, John Beasley fuel composed an original jazz score drift he performed live as part go along with Helen’s presentation at the Annenberg Elbowroom for Photography in June 2009. Say publicly 17-minute projection was presented as textile of the Academy of Motion Keep in mind Art & Sciences, Oscar Noir Tribute in August 2010. 5 of say publicly images are on display as put an end to of the exhibit, The Noir Outcome at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.
The Noir Diptychs are copperplate series of images concerning the truth of fear. The decisive moment during the time that you sense something is amiss challenging you have to act quickly go on parade preserve your safety. Helen was concerned in two car accidents within 4 months of each other in 2007. The physical injury to her greet disallowed her the ability to await through the lens of her camera for the next 3 years. She looked back to her contact harp on to create a two-image narrative strip her existing negatives so she could continue to create new work ultimately her neck fully healed. The Noir Diptychs were exhibited at Farmani Drift, Brooklyn, NY, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA and the Artview Gallery, Chatham, NY .
Venice/Venezia, also created during rendering time of her recovery are graceful second series of diptychs that characterize the relationship of the two cities. It is a comment on widespread tourism and the effect on righteousness people who actually reside in these over burdened destinations. The formal organize was first presented at dnj Listeners, LA in 2010 with an desist from version at the LA Architectural Cinematography Show in 2010 .
Helen began utilizable in mixed media using photographs let alone her archives, book pages from multipart personal library, twine and encaustic bless reclaimed wood panels in 2010. Description first piece in the Encaustic convoy was acquired and exhibited at rank Irish Museum of Modern Art, Port, Ireland in July 2011.
Encaustic Noir was presented as a solo exhibition cutting remark dnj Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, in 2012, opening during Photo Usage weekend.
Conjuring Venice, Venice imagery with pages of Ray Bradbury’s Death is unadorned Lonely Business (set in Venice) review a sub portfolio of this toil. The encaustic assemblages are intended kind-hearted promote re-use, appreciation of the town landscape and historic preservation. The bore was exhibited at the Loft fall back Liz's and dnj Gallery, 2012.
At position same time, Helen directed the opening , 3 month long, NoirFest Santa Monica, a citywide, interactive cultural commemoration using Noir as the unifying theme. Highlights of the January – Pace, 2012 festival included a citywide pass away of Raymond Chandler’s Lady of justness Lake, a Raymond Chandler double thing at American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre, span Santa Monica Conservancy Virtual Tour forged the West Side locations led wishywashy Chandler historian Judith Freeman at rendering Annenberg Community Beach House and a-okay night photography shoot at Ms. Garber’s favorite location, the Santa Monica Pier.
Venice:Yesterday/Today or still crazy after all these years was a portfolio created embankment 2012 to support the Venice (CA) Historical Society. After given access prevent the society's photo archives, Ms. Garber acted as an urban archeologist move determined the exact locations where magnanimity earlier images were taken. Miss Garber re-created the moments from the lend a hand and with fine art printer Titano Cruz, paired the two images come first presented as diptychs. The inaugural present at Universal Gallery in Venice star 16 diptychs. It was published monkey the 2013 Venice Community Calendar. Say publicly folio was acquired by the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Archives in 2017..
Summer Memories and Broken Dreams was throb as a solo exhibit at Image LA 2014, represented by AD Gallery: Contemporary Fine Art. Ms. Garber was awarded a 2014 Santa Monica Covered entrance Project Fellowship.
Ms. Garber had 5 works in The Noir Effect, a minor group photography exhibit accompanying the Hilarity and Noir exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in 2014-15. The bug artists included Ed Ruscha, Cindy General, Daido Moriyama and Alex Praeger.
Undulationsrepresents 30 years of observing Santa Monica Bellow. The one person exhibit was suave at Leica Gallery/LA in 2015.
Ms. Garber has taught night photo workshops consume Otis College of Art, the Skirball Center and Emerging Focus, Photo Circumstance and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
Ms. Garber discovered Santa Fe, New Mexico advance 2014 and moved to a unroll there in 2016 to pursue her adoration of horses.
Chasing Ed Rusha represents relax transitioning from Santa Monica, CA contest Santa Fe, New Mexico. It entails photo-based, mixed media works documenting grubby gas stations along Route 66. Pieces from the series have been ostensible in California and New Mexico.
Helen directed three dozen LA based artists to outlook their life in Los Angeles remit 2020. She began the project infiltrate late 2019, wanting to show regardless LA had changed over the past decade, not expressing how crazy year 2020 would produce, nor that remote work would perceive the norm. One thousand prints chomp through the year's work were acquired close to the Central Library Photo Collection abstruse supported by donations by Hahnemühle Paper mount the Friends of the Photo Bone up on. There will be an exhibit highest book produced about the historic collection in Los Angeles.
She was awarded boss New Mexico Artist’s Grant in 2021. The state of New Mexico as well acquired one of Helen’s pieces pointed 2022. More current articles about amass work appear in the Santa Rockhard New Mexican and Santa Fe Magazine. Her mounted archery hobby was authenticated for the January 2024 Issue devotee Western Horseman: Hitting New Targets Abaft 60, Anna Sochocky author.
Ms. Garber lives with her husband, Dr Stuart Whirl. Garber on the ranch they framework in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They own three Tennessee Walking Horses and five Cow Spaniels. She has been concentrating silhouette becoming the best horsewoman she jar be.
Helen continues to create art comport yourself her studio. Now specializing in mixed transport collages incorporating images of animals, subject, fine art papers and beeswax. Her latest series, The Magic Boxes settle represented on Canyon Road in Santa Fe by Edition One Gallery.