Bio: Helen Garber

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"Juxtapoz Magazine"
Cover Article (Mar/Apr 2003)

Helen Garber
Born: 1976, State College, PA
Living and working in Los Angeles

Solo Exhibitions:
2003: “Lightness and the Dark”: Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001: Visionaire Gallery with Bronwyn Keenan Gallery: “American Groupie”, NYC
Flaunt Magazine with Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, Los Angeles
Marella Arte Contempranea, Milan, Italy
2000: Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, “Bikers”, NYC

Group Exhibitions:
2003: “Girls and Guns”: 31 Grand Gallery, NYC
2000: “Art Forum Berlin”: Berlin, Germany
“Ride Free”: Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC
“Women”: Egizio’s Project, NYC

Education:
1997: The Atallier of the Atlantic, NYC
1993-1996: Private apprenticeship, NYC
1993-1996: New York Academy, NYC
1994: Art Students League, NYC

Press Articles & Reviews:
2003: Gore, Janice. Juxtapoz Magazine cover article, March-April 2003
2002: Bricchi Lee, Loretta. Elle Italia, October 2002
2002: Leland, John. New York Times front page feature, June 13, 2002
2001: Smith, Roberta. New York Times, June 2001
Brandox, Christie. Vice Magazine, August 2001
Evans, Ethan. Visionaire Magazine
Ross, Joanne. Savage, December 2001
2000: Reike, Timothy. New York Hangover, June 2000
“Dans la tradition....,” Grand format, June 2000
Genies, Bernard. “Les Enfants de Warhol,” Le Nouvel Observateur, June 2000
“212” Fox News Network, June 2000
“Boheme, schrag: Neue Kunst bei Bronwyn Keenan,”
-Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Saturday, April 20, 2000
Halle, Howard. Spin Magazine, June 2000
Hunt, David. Time Out, April 5-11, 2000
Petronio, Ezra. Self-Service, March 2000
Schubert, Larry. Flaunt, March 2000
1999: Moynihan, Colin. “Bad to the Bone, Formal to the Brush: Bikers Done Up in Oil”
-The New York Times: November 21, 1999.

RUNAWAY SUCCESS

Twenty-three-year-old Helen Garber likes to paint her friends the way, say, Rembrant would. And almost all her friends anre bikers. "Everyone thinks that of society people when they of Old Masters portraits," she says. "But I figured my friends deserved to be painted that way, too." Garber lived on Long Island until she was 13, when she ran away. "I had alot of problems as a kid," says Garber, who suffered such severe anxiety attacks that she often skipped school. "also, I came from a one-parent household that was Orthodox Jewish, and I was punk-rock." Understood. She fled to New York City's Lower East Side, floor-surfed with friends, hooked up with an older artist who became her mentor, and hung out at museums, painting the entire time. She also married a Brasillian tatoo artist, found a patron, got divorced, got remarried, and most recently, got discovered by Manhattan dealer Bronwyn Keenan, who gave Garber her first show this spring. Never one to rest, Garber is now starting a series of group portraits of families, including her own. "I'm interested inhow different social groups form families," she says. "it's hard to keep them together, no matter where you come from.

-Howard Halle / Spin Magazine