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| Joy Garnett is a New York artist whose work focuses on images of the apocalyptic-sublime and its intersections with media, politics and culture. Her paintings have been exhibited in the US and internationally, including at Debs & Co., Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, Clementine Gallery, White Columns and the New York Academy of Sciences (all in NY); G Fine Art and the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK; and Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium. In 2002 she organized the traveling exhibition Night Vision which opened at White Columns, NY. In 2004 she received a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation. She is the Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, an internationally refereed journal published by Berg, Oxford, UK. Strange Weather is an ongoing series of paintings based on photographs of storms and "natural" disasters collected from the internet. It is a meditation on the current debate about global warming and climate change, and how they are representated in the media. Collecting digital images from various news and government sites on the Internet, Garnett unhinges them from their contextual framework by introducing them into the traditional artistic genre of oil painting. Her works illustrate the malleability of media imagery by rendering fleeting scenes of conflict as permanent visceral effigies produced with a painterly meditation that erodes the familiarity and acceptance of remote events delivered ever more rapidly and repetitiously via evolving communications technology. [Paul Brewer, Blasts, G Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 2005] Ephemera + multiples: Colin Keefe Richard Long Kiki Smith Airborne Camera Walden Vija Celmins Catalogue Moonwatchers Wonders of the Sea: Shells Cabinet: The Weather Issue Planet Earth: Atmosphere |
| Joy Garnett Strange Weather (2) 2005 Oil on canvas 20 x 26 inches Courtesy of the artist; more images |
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