Cliff Garten

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Cliff Garten


Cliff Garten is an internationally recognized sculptor and
founder of Cliff Garten Studio in Venice, California.


By connecting people to places and infrastructure through
sculptural material, social history and ecology, Garten's work
locates the latent potential in every public place and situation
to become more than the specific functions it appears to perform.
Sculpture and landscape, function and form, like public and
private experiences are never distinct, but exchange places
throughout the day. Sculpture defines our interaction and
movement by creating energy between things, generating interest
in public activity, reframing our private lives and creating a
sense of place within public and private realms.


Garten received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode
Island School of Design and a Master of Landscape Architecture
with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.