Ginnie Gardiner’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US since 1985. Gardiner received her B.F.A. from Cornell University in 1974. From 1978 to 2006 she lived and worked in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City with her husband, Jon Phillips (b.1952-d.2020). In 2005 they relocated to upstate New York, after purchasing a Federal era building in the Village of Catskill, where Ginnie has her home and studio.
Abbreviated list of exhibitions and events:
2025 - November, Video and interview feature on INSIDE+OUT Upstate NY: In The Studio with Ginnie Gardiner, new book, Ginnie Gardiner: Change and Continuity, full color 142 page artists book with an essay by Wendy Smith. Online version of the book:
https://issuu.com/crosscontemporaryart/docs/ginnie_gardiner_change_and_continuity?fr=xKAE9_zMzMw
Focus: In Flux, Kathy Greenwood, juror, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY, Connecticut Women Artists 2025 Juried Exhibition, Juror, Deanna Fitzgerald, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT.
2024 - Connecticut Women Artists 2024 Juried Exhibition, Juror, Sharon Butler, The Slater Memorial Museum, Far & Wide National, Juror, Jane Eckert, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY.
2023 - Putting it Together, Collage Group show, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, Driven to Abstraction, Group Show, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, In Pursuit of Color, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, Unconnected Yet, Group exhibition, Curated by Tod Bartel, Talin Megherian, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India, Radius 50: Intimate Immensity, The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY.
2022 - Complex Muses, curated by Todd Bartel, at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, RADIUS 50, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Ethereal Communication, Curated by Shazzi Thomas and Chase Cantwell, The Painting Center, New York, NY, A Circle of Horizon Lines, Juror, Jess Wilcox, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY.
2021 exhibitions include Solo Exhibition, 'GINNIE GARDINER: INTERLUSION: Recent Painting and Collage, at the Carrie Chen Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, Two -Person Exhibition, 'ECHO: Ginnie Gardiner & Amy Talluto, Recent Painting and Collage, Albany International Airport Art & Culture Program Gallery.
2019 - unfoldingobject, curated by Todd Bartel, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA.
2018 - Solo Exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, The Color Prophesies
1998 to 2010 - And I Quote, Talking with Tiepolo, Solo Exhibition, Collage, Signs and Surfaces, The New Collage, Daughters of the Revolution: Women & Collage, In Translation: Austin, Deem, Gardiner, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, The Re-Associated Image, Group exhibition of collage, Flanders Contemporary Art,Minneapolis, MN, Ginnie Gardiner, Curator.
Statement
The main components of my recent subject matter in the Interspace Series are folded, curved, and cut-out pieces of paper, selected fragments from my photographs of various objects, and hand painted and printed papers. As a painter and collage artist, my Interspace Series explores the translation of three dimensional paper shapes into two dimensional color designs, in a further exploration of the relativity of color, figure/ground and negative space. These studies for my large scale oil paintings are focused on space, shapes, shadow and light. Shadows are usually considered as negative space, but in my studies, they become distinctive shapes that I balance with the paper shapes, considering the two kinds of shapes on an equal basis.
For many years I have been absorbed in the process of creating the illusion of transparency in my paintings. With oil paints I mix separate notes of color to approximate light as it is reflected or refracted on various planes observed in nature and man-made objects. This process continued in 2018 with the Artifact Color Series and from 2019 to 2022, the Interlusion Series. My central concern in the Artifact Color Series, begun in 2018, is the concept of phenomenal transparency; I employ opaque mixtures to achieve the illusion of transparency in the medium of oil paint. These are inspired by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square Series and are collages created with painted woodblock papers. They are the oil paint mixtures from current paintings, influenced by the seasons and local weather.