Sid Garrison, master of the colored-pencil abstract, dead at 66
Sam Whiting March 9, 2021Updated: March 11, 2021, 11:46 pm Sid Garrison in his Laurel Heights studio. Photo: Ken Probst, Ken Probst 2007 Sid Garrison, a San Francisco artist whose work appeared in galleries in the city throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, used the most basic materials available: colored pencil on paper. He was colorblind and worked in moody shades of blue and black until he suffered a stroke at age 50, in 2005. The effect on his brain caused an explosion of bright hues in his work, inspiring a level of creativity that would last the rest of his life. But Garriso...