Forrest McGarvey is an artist and writer currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through digital collage, video, installation, and works on paper, his practice explores how we orient oneself within a contemporary media landscape. Seeing the digital screen as a space that lacks definition, his practice examines how our established understandings of perception are being challenged and altered via our relationship with technology, both on and offline. Drawing from a plethora of sources—cultural and historical, personal and stereotypical, fantasy and commercial—he creates narrative works about identity, queerness, embodiment, and failure that arise at the intersection of all these cross-roads, and the potentiality of these combinations therein.
His work has been featured as both an artist and a writer in multiple print publications and exhibitions across the Pacific Northwest. He received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies and an MFA in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts. Forrest also holds a BFA in Fine Arts from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
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