Jedd Garet

Jedd Garet is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, who was born in 1955. He was raised in California, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Influenced by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, Garet uses garish colors in jarring contrasts to explore relationships between nature, man, and art. He combines human figures, classical architectural fragments, and abstraction in narrative works, and is known for his amorphous life forms. Nothing Too Strange and Beautiful, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art demonstrates this phase of the artist's monumental sculpture. It was created as a folly for a sculpture park exhibition at Wave Hill in New York City. In later work, figures, trees, and other more recognizable objects were added to the minimalist flat ground, creating tension.