I take photographs, mainly. I use film. I spend time in darkrooms. I don't shoot, manipulate or print anything digitally. I think this is important to know.

 

There is magic in analog photographic processes. I am not being figurative when I say this.

  

You have to log in to see most of my photographs here. Or you could just go to my website: www.rikgarrett.com

   

I do other things also, like make music or other art projects.

 

My livejournal: rikgarrett.livejournal.com

 

Facebook page for my photography: Facebook

 

If you want to hear the music that you are seeing photographs of, this is a good place to start: LUVZYA

 

randomly updated CV:

  

Curatorial Projects

2008

OUTDATED Polaroid art show, group exhibition, Country Club Chicago, Chicago IL

 

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Intimate Alchemy, Edi’s Weinstube in association with the Museum of Porn in Art, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2006

Rik Garrett, Edi's Weinstube in association with the Museum of Porn in Art, Zurich, Switzerland

Rik Garrett, Develop studios, Seattle, WA

 

2004

Hymn to Babalon, The Mercury, Seattl,e WA

 

2003

Awakening, Aurafice Café, Seattle, WA

  

Juried and Group Exhibitions

2009

Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle, WA

3 Feet High and Rising, Per Populus Gallery, Chicago, IL

Dirty Show Zurich, Kino Roland in association with the Museum of Porn in Art, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2008

Steven Johnson Leyba and Rik Garrett, the Nineteen Hundred and One Gallery, Chicago, IL

Weekend Fling, Rik Garrett, Sara Renae Jones and MD Woodward, ALLRiSE Gallery, Chicago, IL

Seattle Erotic Art Festival gala, invited artist via Art@Large, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle, WA

 

2007

Streetwise Art, the People’s Art Festival, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI

group exhibition, via Les Barany & BaranyArtists.com, CPop Gallery, Detroit, MI

Venus, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA

Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist via Art@Large, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

Dirty Show 8 - invited artist via Les Barany & BaranyArtists.com, Detroit, MI

 

2006

“II”, Guild of the Black Eagle, New York, NY

Dirty Summer, Dirty Detroit 7.5, Bert’s Warehouse Theater, Detroit, MI

Hot at Large, Summer Group Invitational, Art@Large, New York, NY

Seattle Erotic Art Festival - invited artist via Art@Large, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

Vaudeville Flesh, the Firefly, Los Angeles, CA

Dirty Show 7, Bert’s Warehouse Theater, Detroit, MI

 

2005

TAUNT - Modern Visions of Mysterious Femmes, Mnemonic Gallery, Seattle, WA

Benefit for Bamboo the Elephant, invitational group exhibition, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA

Art'Fisk, juried photography exhibition, Ballard, WA

Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited Artist via Art@Large, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

Major Arcana - The Art of the Tarot, Wingnut Galleries, Seattle, WA

Sex & the Muse, Rik Garrett & Steven Johnson Leyba, Art @ Large, New York NY

These Precious Things, Wingnut Galleries, Seattle, WA

 

2004

The Belle Epoque Ball, Wingnut Galleries, Seattle, WA

Myth and Metaphor, Rik Garrett and Mark Diamond, Wingnut Galleries, Seattle, WA

The Back to School Show, Wingnut Galleries, Seattle, WA

Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

 

2003

Woman - Goddess, Vamp and Vixen, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Tacoma, WA

Day of the Dead Art Show, Mercury, Seattle, WA

 

2002

Ravished, Rik Garrett and David Egelhoff, the Aurafice Café, Seattle, WA

Patrick Jones and the Flying Pickle Circus, Fremont Unconventional Center, Seattle, WA

 

2001

Images of the Millennium, Random Modern Gallery, Tacoma, WA

  

Publications and Media

2008

PEP! Magazine feature

NYArts Magazine, “Intimate Alchemy” interview

New City, “Instant Death” article

 

2005

Seattle Sinner, interview and cover image

Sex Life with Dane Ballard, April appearance promoting the Seattle Erotic Art Festival

Art Access publication, image and article promoting Wingnut Galleries

 

2004

Timeless magazine, inside front cover image

Polaroid.com' re-inclusion in revamped Professional Artist online gallery

Sex Life with Dane Ballard, October appearance promoting the two person show "Myth and Metaphor"

Sex Life With Dane Ballard, January appearance promoting the Seattle Erotic Art Festival

 

2003

Seattle Sinner “Use Who You Know”, article, September

Seattle Sinner cover image, November

 

2001

Art Access magazine, Inclusion in article regarding "Images of the Millennium"

Polaroidwork.com, Inclusion in Polaroid's "Professional Photographer" gallery

 

2000

Fort Lewis Ranger “Soul Autopsy” feature article by Alex Clayton