Michael Garlington “Procession of the Tea Party” Monumental Mixed Media Wall Installation. Original Price: $13,140

Design Plus Gallery presents “Procession of the Tea Party” a fine art installation by artist Michael Garlington, 2022. The monumental mixed media piece, five feet across and four high, is a black and white portrait surrounded by a frame shaped collage of porcelain wares, clocks and all manner of found objects. Little evidence of wear; condition is good.

” Michael Garlington is a photographer, master printer and sculptor. He is the son of a journalist and a photographer. Raised in Petaluma, California, he was influenced early on by the mix of hippies, poultry and dairy farmers, metal fabricators, bleeding hearts, artists and transients surrounding him. At 17, he began working with his mother and step father at their photographic lab in San Francisco, Spindler Photographic.

Working at Spindler Photographic was a turning point in Michael’s life. He gained and mastered his skills at black and white film development and printing. The best photographers in the Bay Area at the time were clientele of Spindle Photographic and this exposure informed his composition and developed his dark room talent. By age 21, Garlington embarked on his own artistic mission, photographing the world around him, but more interestingly creating new worlds for his portraits to exist in. By building backdrops and sculptural elements to photograph he created what he calls photosculptures. His work captures luminous, yet often stark imagery encompassing the spectrum of human emotion and experience.”