BIOGRAPHY
Artist Statement
My mission as a photographer is capturing the beauty, sensitivity and humanity of my subjects. The images are unfettered by backgrounds and by isolating them, their form, their singularity can be further observed ... "Secrets Objects Share".
Photo essays involving people interest me. After twenty years in the human resources field, photography has allowed me to reach people in a different way. An ongoing traveling project is called WORDS OF WISDOM. I ask elderly subjects to share with me their most valuable commodity: the experience of their years through their words of wisdom. Perhaps, the answers will help us understand life's lessons sooner. The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel wrote, "Anita Garnett sees beauty in silver hair, wisdom in lined faces and integrity in weathered hands."
My focus is on fine art and portraits - photographing pregnant women, children, babies and multi-generational families.
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EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
Miranda Winery, Goshen CT 2009
Creative Hands Gallery Salisbury 2009
At Home in the Country Gallery, Salisbury, CT 2007
Noble Horizons, Salisbury, CT 2006
Sotheby’s, New Preston, CT 2006
At Home in the Country Gallery, Salisbury, CT 2005
Hartford Hospital, Hartford CT 2005
Northeast Utilities Headquarters Building, Berlin, CT 2005
Hartford Arts Council, CT 2004 - 2005
Academy Building, Salisbury, CT 2004
Annex Gallery Northwestern Community College, CT 2004
Old School Square Crest Theatre, Delray Beach Faces Millennium 2000
Words of Wisdom Delray Beach Public Library, Fl. 1999
GROUP SHOWS
CT+5 Art Show 2010
University of Connecticut Medical Center 2010 - Permanent Collection
Pia Sjolin Gallery 2010
Exposures Photography 2009
CT+5 States Open Juried Art Competition 2008
Artwell Gallery Show for Show 2008
SPECTRA ’07: National Juried Photography Triennial
Juror- Pace/MacGill Gallery NYC 2007
Fifty-Fifty Invitational Show Artspace Windham & Artwell Gallery 2007
West Hartford ArtWalk 2007 Juror-K Myers, Prof Painting UConn 2007
Tokonoma Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA 2007-2008
Artwell Gallery Show for Show 2007
West Hartford Art League Open Juried Art Show 2007
West Hartford Art League Exposures Annual Juried Photography 2007
West Hartford Art League Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2007
Silvermine Guild 57th Annual Art of the Northeast Juror-Knoedler Gallery, NYC 2007
West Hartford Open Juried Show Juror- Wm Benton Museum of Art UConn 2006
Eleventh Annual Exposures Open Photography Show 2006
At Home in the Country Gallery 2005-2006
Gallery on the Green Canton, CT 2005
Housatonic Art Museum Annual Open Juried Show Exhibition 2005
West Hartford Art League Open Juried 2005, Juror from Yale Art Gallery
ACT II Gallery, New Hartford, CT 2005 and 2006
West Hartford Art League Juried Members Show 2005
Artwell Gallery Ninth Annual Open Juried Exhibition 2005
West Hartford Art League Open Juried Photography Show 2005
Gallery on Green, Canton, CT 2004
Infocus Juried Competition Palm Beach Photographic Centre, FL 2003
AWARDS
CT+ 5 Award 2008
West Hartford Art League Wadsworth Atheneum Art Award 2007
West Hartford Art League New Britain Museum of American Art Award 2006
Canton Artists' Guild, CT
The Charles & Doris Currier Memorial Photography Award 2005
West Hartford Art League Trustees Award (2nd Place) 2006
West Hartford Art League, CT Autograph Award 2005
Apogee Photo Magazine Photo Contest: Faces of Our Elders
Grand Prize International Winner May 2003
Kodak International Newspaper Awards Contest Finalist 1996 & 1997
Women in the Visual Arts, S Florida Finalist in Juried Exhibition 1999
PUBLICATIONS
New Magazine New Jersey 2008
ARTIS Magazine Feb-March 2005 and June-July 2005
The Art of the Birdhouse Book Contributing Photographer 2006
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