Garko evokes the harmonies and tensions found in the relationships between the natural and the man-made. Vague veils of color and light reveal forms of landscape fragments, people, and other familiar objects. Manifestations are made through glazes of oil color, abrupt swathes of paint, and raw canvas.

He refreshes an established formal language with a vocabulary of his own, culled from the fascination with nature and light. The resulting images are radiant compositions of known objects pushed outside the boundaries of realism to reinvigorate the familiar assumptions. In doing so, Garko questions the ineffable relationship between the sensation of truth and the epistemological.