The Stories We Tell Ourselves is a series of mixed media works and drawings by Stephen Garrison. By looking at anthropomorphic characters found throughout world religion, mythology, and contemporary fiction. The characters represented here each come from stories or histories in which they embody human personality traits.
The paintings themselves develop as layers which mask or reveal the drawing underneath. There are no physically mixed colors; each hue is the result of the layering of thin glazes of pure color. Each mixed media piece, with paper affixed to wood panel with multiple glazes of paint applied to it, acts as a series of masks. Each viewer may actually perceive them slightly differently, depending on their color sensitivities.
Gallery profits from run of show are donated to For The Love Of Paws.

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