| Garner
Tullis (1939 - )
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Garner Tullis became best known for
his printmaking, especially monotypes, but has also done non-objective
paintings with encaustic, still life with acrylic, bronze sculpture
and innovative work with film. In the early 1970s, he experimented
with a process of bonding thin films of titanium and quartz in
a vacuum chamber to glass plates, and the effect was "mists
of rainbow color spectra over mirror-like reflecting surfaces".
(Albright 318)
Garner Tullis has worked in both New York City and California.
In New York City he founded the Garner Tullis Workshop, and
in California was Foundry Supervisor of Sculpture at the University
of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1969 and Associate Professor
of Printmaking at the University of California, Davis from
1976 to 1984.
In 1973, he founded the International Center for Experimental
Printmaking in Santa Cruz, California. From this Center, he
made bronze sculpted heads and then created reliefs of these
heads from handmade paper, obtained from recycled canvases.
In the late 1970s, he did acrylic on paper abstracted still-life
paintings that featured in silhouette materials from his studio.
Tullis earned a BFA at the University of Pennsylvania, was
a Fulbright Scholar in Italy at the Academia Di Belli Arte,
and earned an MA from Stanford University.
He is a life member of the Print Club of Philadelphia and
also belongs to the California Society of Printmakers.
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