Forrest McGarvey is an artist and writer currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. In his interdisciplinary practice, he examines how we use objects, materials, and media to define our selves at the intersection between image technology and locating oneself within a contemporary media landscape. He is interested in the construction, circulation and consumption of images as a means of forming identity, its effects on perception and representation, and the functions of the resulting system both on and off screen. Through his work, he explores notions of ownership, performativity, agency, and embodiment of the self within a singular hybridized space that prompt questions that aim to blur the lines between digital and physical, real and virtual, and fiction and reality.
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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