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Ginnie Gardiner

Catskill, New York

Explorations of phenomenal transparency, where opaque oil paint mixtures create the illusion of transparency, fusing tactility and opticality.

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Collection: The Artifact Color Series

Artifact CIV by Ginnie Gardiner, Image 1.
  • Artifact CIV, 2023
Oil on woodblock papers
8.75 x 6.5 in
(22.23 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact XCIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XCIII, 2022
Oil on woodblock papers
6 x 5.75 in
(15.24 x 14.61 cm)
Artifact XCII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XCII, 2022
Oil on woodblock papers
7 x 6.5 in
(17.78 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact XC, Image 1.
  • Artifact XC, 2021
Oil on woodblock papers
7.5 x 6.5 in
(19.05 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact LXXXVIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXXVIII, 2021
7.25 x 5.8 in
(18.42 x 14.73 cm)
Artifact LXXXVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXXVI, 2021
Oil on woodblock papers
5.8 x 4.6 in
(14.73 x 11.68 cm)
Artifact LXXXVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXXVI, 2021
Oil on woodblock papers + Archival photo paper
5.5 x 5 in
(13.97 x 12.7 cm)
Artifact LXXXV, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXXV, 2021
Oil on woodblock papers + Archival photo paper
7.5 x 5.5 in
(19.05 x 13.97 cm)
Artifact XXIX (source for Interlusion 25), Image 1.
  • Artifact XXIX (source for Interlusion 25), 2020
Oil on woodblock papers
8 x 5.75 in
(20.32 x 14.61 cm)
Artifact LXXXI (source for Interlusion 31), Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXXI (source for Interlusion 31), 2020
Oil on woodblock papers
9.25 x 5 in
(23.5 x 12.7 cm)
Artifact LXXIII by Ginnie Gardiner, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXIII, 2020
Oil on woodblock papers
9.25 x 6 in
(23.5 x 15.24 cm)
Artifact LVXXVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact LVXXVI, 2020
Oil on woodblock papers
9.75 x 5.75 in
(24.77 x 14.61 cm)
Artifact LXXII, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXII, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
9 x 4 in
(22.86 x 10.16 cm)
Artifact LXXI, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXXI, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
3.5 x 7.4 in
(8.89 x 18.8 cm)
Artifact LXX, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXX, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
7.75 x 4.75 in
(19.69 x 12.07 cm)
Artifact LXVIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXVIII, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
5 x 6.8 in
(12.7 x 17.27 cm)
Artifact LXVII, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXVII, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
Artifact LXVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact LXVI, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
8 x 6.4 in
(20.32 x 16.26 cm)
Artifact LXIX, Image 2.
  • Artifact LXIX, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
7.8 x 6 in
(19.81 x 15.24 cm)
Artifact LX, Image 1.
  • Artifact LX, 2019
Oil on woodblock papers
10.75 x 6.75 in
(27.31 x 17.15 cm)
Artifact XXXVIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXVIII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
5 x 7 in
(12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Artifact XXXVII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXVII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
7.75 x 6.5 in
(19.69 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact XXXVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXVI, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9 x 6.25 in
(22.86 x 15.88 cm)
Artifact XXXV (source for Interlusion 1), Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXV (source for Interlusion 1), 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9 x 6.5 in
(22.86 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact XXXIX, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXIX, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
5.5 x 7.5 in
(13.97 x 19.05 cm)
Artifact XXXIV, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXIV, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9.25 x 7 in
(23.5 x 17.78 cm)
Artifact XXXIII, Image 2.
  • Artifact XXXIII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6 x 10.6 in
(15.24 x 26.92 cm)
Artifact XXXII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
7.5 x 6 in
(19.05 x 15.24 cm)
Artifact XXXI, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXXI, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
11 x 8.25 in
(27.94 x 20.96 cm)
Artifact XXX, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXX, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
8.5 x 5 in
(21.59 x 12.7 cm)
Artifact XXVIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXVIII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9.3 x 7 in
(23.62 x 17.78 cm)
Artifact XXVII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXVII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9.75 x 6.6 in
(24.77 x 16.76 cm)
Artifact XXVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXVI, 2018
Oil on Arches 140 lb paper for oil paint
11.8 x 7.5 in
(29.97 x 19.05 cm)
Artifact XXV, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXV, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
10.25 x 6.75 in
(26.04 x 17.15 cm)
Artifact XXIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXIII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6 x 6.5 in
(15.24 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact XXII  (source for Interlusion 16), Image 1.
  • Artifact XXII (source for Interlusion 16), 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
5.75 x 6.75 in
(14.61 x 17.15 cm)
Artifact XXII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6.75 x 5.75 in
(17.15 x 14.61 cm)
Artifact XXI, Image 1.
  • Artifact XXI, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
5.75 x 3.5 in
(14.61 x 8.89 cm)
Artifact XX, Image 1.
  • Artifact XX, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9 x 4.25 in
(22.86 x 10.8 cm)
Artifact XVIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XVIII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
4.25 x 6.75 in
(10.8 x 17.15 cm)
Artifact XVII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XVII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6.5 x 5.75 in
(16.51 x 14.61 cm)
Artifact XVI, Image 1.
  • Artifact XVI, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6.5 x 6 in
(16.51 x 15.24 cm)
Artifact XV, Image 1.
  • Artifact XV, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
5.2 x 6.5 in
(13.21 x 16.51 cm)
Artifact XLIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XLIII, 2018
Mixed Media
5.8 x 5.8 in
(14.73 x 14.73 cm)
Artifact XLII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XLII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
10 x 6.25 in
(25.4 x 15.88 cm)
Artifact XLI, Image 1.
  • Artifact XLI, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
9.6 x 6.2 in
(24.38 x 15.75 cm)
Artifact XIX, Image 1.
  • Artifact XIX, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
10.25 x 8 in
(26.04 x 20.32 cm)
Artifact XIV, Image 1.
  • Artifact XIV, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
8.75 x 6 in
(22.23 x 15.24 cm)
Artifact XIII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XIII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6.75 x 5 in
(17.15 x 12.7 cm)
Artifact XII, Image 1.
  • Artifact XII, 2018
Oil on woodblock papers
6 x 6 in
(15.24 x 15.24 cm)
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Biography:


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.