ABOUT THE GREEN SERIES
After his first successful solo opening of the Neo-Pop paintings, in which he sold several works to Pepsico Sculpture Garden founder Donald Kendall, Garnett rented his first post-college studio and threw down the Pop in order to teach himself traditional painting techniques. His Green Series was the self-imposed solution. Working with solitary nudes against the southern bank of windows that constituted an entire wall in his studio, the artist worked from live figures as the sun moved across their bodies. His brother Matthew and his girlfriend at the time modeled for this series.
The Neo-Pop series precedes this work and the October series comes in 1996 when Garnett puts the model away and stretches the figure in his imagination, which leads him into his first Reconstruction paintings (i.e. The Mourning, Postmodern Olympia, Contemplating Man) of 1997.