Jeanne Garrett, a mid-west based photographer, did not take a straight route to photography.  With formal studies of photography at Barat College, she is primarily self-taught.

 

Early in her photographic life, she joined the staff of the Reagan-Bush campaign where she documented candidates on the campaign trail in Illinois. Her photos of the Victory ’80 Bus Tour, taken the day before the election, were used in the final edition of the Reagan/Bush News.

 

After a corporate career in communications and marketing, she renewed her passion for photography and dedicated her creative life to personal photographic projects.

 

Garrett’s solo exhibition, “The Charcoal Forest – Nature’s Narrative of Rebirth and Renewal”, has been shown at the Robert T. Wright Gallery at the College of Lake County. Another exhibition “Healing Lines and Circles” based on her husband’s heart surgery has been shown in several galleries in Illinois. Another theme, the landscape and the environment is reflected in a solo exhibit “ELEMENTS: Earth, Wind, Water, Fire – Fraying at the Edges” and has been shown at several galleries in Illinois and the A. Smith Gallery in Texas. Other works have been shown in the Swope Art Museum in Terra Haute, Indiana, the Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, the Stonehenge Gallery in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland, to name a few.

 

Her imagery has been featured in publications including the Daily Herald newspaper, Birds and Blooms and Black & White magazines and websites of the International Photography Hall of Fame, the BBC and National Geographic. Her image “The Stillness After” was the Grand Prize winner of the Hall of Fame Exhibition. She was a Merit Award winner in Black and White magazine in 2021 and 2022. She has received other honorable mentions and awards including “Best of Show” from Gallery Seven in Lockport, Illinois, in 2021.

 

Public projects include participation in an underpass project in her hometown where hateful graffiti was replaced with an artwork display. In another, she spearheaded a project making portraits at Chicago Tech Academy, a contract school established by the city to increase the number of minority low income students that pursue science, technology and engineering. Her portraits of several hundred students make up a two-story mural that hangs on the school’s exterior.

 

In her artistic journey, she has experimented with how to portray her photographic imagery in unique ways, using textiles and gold leafing to capture rhythms, shapes and patterns she finds in her photographs.

 

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