On any given day, Jenny Garrity (b. 1979) will invariably be found drawing, seated with her nose so close the surface of the page it seems as if she herself is emerging from it, part of the family of gnome-like figures she creates. With delicate, hair-thin lines, forms develop from the accumulation of mark, each topped with a domed, bald head and faint facial features, full of expressive force. In her own private, self-contained way, Garrity has conversations with these little communities she creates, often seeming to chat with them while they come to life, populating her page.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019

​Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY

The Creative Commons, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ

2018

Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY

2017

You and Me, The Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Drawn to Stitch, Ageless Gardens, Philadelphia, PA

2016

Eloquent Mark, Gallery 241, Wynnewood, PA

You/Me/Them: People in Pictures, Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA

 

PUBLICATIONS

Psychoanalytic Perspectives: An International Journal of Integration and Innovation,

         vol 13 issue 3, 2016