Geoffrey
Lardiere graduated in 1973 from The School of Design at North Carolina
State University, where in his senior year he was selected by John I.H.
Baur, former director of the Whitney Musama of Art, to exhibit at the
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. He moved to Los Angeles in 1975,
at the age of 24, to become an award winning National Advertising Art
Director in Century City, working on accounts that included Sony and
Marantz Stereo.
At the age of 29, he was asked to join the faculty as a professor at Florida State University, where he taught in the Art Department until 1983. For the last fourteen years he has worked full time as a painter, with works purchased for over 500 public, private and corporate collections, including IBM, American Express, and the largest installation ever awarded by AT&T for their international marketing headquarters in New Jersey.
Lardiere had his first One Man Gallery Show at the age of 32, in Chicago, at the Gilman Gallery. Other One Man Shows have followed in throughout the United States. He has participated in 40 invitational group shows throughout the country, including The National Acadexny of Sciences in Washington DC. He is in the permanent museum collections of The Daytona Museum of Arts and Sciences and The Pine Bluff Arkansas Museum.
In 1987, at 36, Lardiere began pursuing commissions for the prestigious Art In Public Places movement in Florida. He has completed four permanent installations for Art in Public Places. The Florida A&M School of Architecture in Tallahassee, The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, The Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Tallahassee, and the Recreation & Fitness Center at the University of Florida, sponsored through the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville. He is also in the collection of the Miami-Dade Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Miami-Dade, Orlando and Tallahassee Art in Public Places. At 45, he is the recipient of more than 20 awards
At 37, Lardiere and his wife Ann lost their 10 year old daughter Gia during open heart surgery in Birmingham, Alabama. Lardiere says he began the "Birmingham Studies" as visual prayers for his daughter when she faced her first surgery at the age of 3, and continues the series today nine years later after her death to remember her soul. Other major painting series inspired by his daughter Gia are the "Forward Studies", Down the Middle", When She is Five and one-half or Six" and "New Birmingham". Other major painting series are "Searching for New Ideas", "Evolving Forms", "Resting Points" and Voices of the Soil".
The Lardieres live with their daughter Brinley in Naples.
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