Cyberspace by Garret Moore, 1996 Acrylic
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ABOUT GARRETThe Creative Visual ArtistGarret Moore was born to the artistic path. He started painting and drawing in childhood and went on to showing works in galleries and museums, exhibitions and for events. He was published throughout the US and Europe for books, magazines, media covers, art cards and as fine art.
In the 1980s Garret started creating new imagery in electronic art, before Photoshop (1992), wining awards and acclaim and was contracted by corporate and government institutions for his creative digital mastery and design graphics. As one of the first digital illustrators to be published for covers and media, Garret could apply the artist skills to the new medium and in process help development of tools for other artists. Our creative spirit can be used for any endeavor for any medium. Garret demonstrates the limitless nature of creativity in the breadth of his works. Fine Art, Illustrations, Graphic Design, and any Media Creation. |
"I work as an artist in all I do. Because nothing is limited with creative awareness" |
Science Illustration can be Visionary - Tree of Life by Garret Moore
My Journey as an Artist
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Short BioGarret Moore’s artistic works inspire a deeper awareness of love, beauty and spirit yet through knowledge and understanding. Garret’s art has published in the US, Europe, and other countries in covers for books, magazines, cards, posters, albums, CDs, and more. His art has exhibited from San Francisco to New York galleries, museums, institutions, corporate and government facilities. Garret is one of the first published digital illustrators winning an international award in the 1980s. His professional life has been as an art /creative director and producer and project director for dotcoms and has also performed in contracts for many corporations and institutions. He is inspired by Renaissance, Luminist artists, east-west philosophy, Science & sacred understandings, and of the indigenous peoples of the Earth. Garret has many works in these and other subject areas yet all from a fine artist’s sense. Born 5/31/54 San Francisco-Oakland CA.
Comprehensive History Garret Moore began drawing, painting and working creatively from his earliest beginnings. He was of course drawing and painting then yet also designing and constructing with anything from crafts to toy construction sets. School was painfully boring and while he had great ability was stifled by the linear way learning that was inappropriately presented for his unique sensibilities. He focused on his natural creative abilities which helped him tolerate those painful early school years. Winning his first competition in the 5th grade for his grade-school float design for the Sacramento Camelia Day Parade. He continued to create art but also excelled in sciences that later in his young life would benefit his other skills as an artist for science subjects. A love for Science Fiction was the best of science and also of imagination. Yet, eventually Garret’s wide science obsession moved into space science continuing his lifelong interests in space, planets, stars and galaxies and all that went with that. The constant discovery science would bring took the place of fiction for its wonder, depth and tangible reality. His interests continued in general sciences and much related to space science from subatomic physics to quasars, quantum to macro structures of the universe and cosmology. His art never stopped from his early life and reflected all his interests in science including Anthropology, world and sacred thought, human consciousness, cultures and related. His education in philosophy and ancient wisdom writings of the east helped balance the diversity of his interests and study. Married to Sandra Hirby-Moore in 1980 who was studying music and psychology at SJSU as a classical Oboist. Garret met Sandra earlier while building the first electronic music studio at Ohlone College. A fan of classical music since childhood and exploring electronic and progressive musical arts, in planning his artistic future and after meeting Sandra decided to stay with the visual arts. Sandra worked for local art and frame shops to support Garret’s work and became a master art framer and conservation consultant. Training as a graphic designer and illustrator in college and working for printers and typesetters afforded Garret professional skills that would expand his freelance work and his fine arts work. Because of his diverse knowledge his works exhibited a variety of subjects seemingly unrelated but clearly of his interests and discoveries. As amateur astronomers Garret and Sandra helped build telescopes and observed for hundreds of hours planetary and deep sky subjects. Garret illustrated hundreds of real-world space objects and scenes inspired by real observations. Comets, planets, stars, nebula, galaxies and galactic clusters. Many of Garret’s illustrations and paintings are from theoretical and unknown space environments and were used in many science publications and exhibits. His work for NASA showed future technology being developed as it would possibly look like when on missions to the Moon & Mars. Garret’s broad understanding of the science allowed intelligent projections of the currently developing technologies we now see in space missions. When the Hubble went into orbit sending back images beyond imagination Garret went into other subjects for work satisfied space was being covered, yet still producing what Hubble could not see. Garret was one of the first real digital illustrators beginning in 1982 and won an international SIGGRAPH award for digital illustration while he was also still illustrating in conventional mediums (acrylic, watercolor, pen & ink, etc.) and showing his paintings in many galleries and science museums. Showing works in California galleries in San Francisco, Carmel, Sausalito and exhibits in science museums like Hayden in New York, San Francisco Academy of sciences, Lawrence Hall of Science and several NASA AMES exhibits and art shows. All the while designing and illustrating for books, magazines media covers, CD, video, vinyl classical album covers and more. 30 paintings were published in postcards and posters were selling throughout Europe, Spain, England and many other countries. They became popular and soon turned into offers for book and magazine covers published there. In 1990 a One-Person show of Garret’s art filled the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and brought in a record number of visitors. Many commented they did not know it was one artist due to the diversity of subjects shown. In the spirit of a Renaissance artist his diversity was clearly a result of the many subjects and experience where he has many works in each area of interest. Garret began working for and was hired by many large and small corporations like NEC, NASA and numerous game-related and tech/web start-up companies in the late 1980s through the 2000s. Titles like Senior Illustrator, Art Director, Creative Director were given for his time in Silicon Valley tech and internet industries. Sandra and Garret opened their own gallery in the Niles district of Fremont in the early 90’s and had their own shows and events with other exhibiting artists through the 90’s and to 2000s. Garret Moore is currently living in Fremont with his wife Sandra and freelancing in graphic design and illustration, photography, video and in many other related creative and skilled areas. His wife Sandra as a master art framer and designer also performs for the San Jose Wind Symphony and teaches music and instrumental to children and adults. Garret M. Moore, 2020 |
The Photograpy of Garret Moore
Resistance
Choice of Light
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