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Joy Garnett

WINKLEMAN GALLERY
637 West 27th Street
February 15-March 15
Scenes of the apocalypse and disasters both natural and man-made could now be considered New York-based artist Joy Garnett 's signature subjects, yet they retain their capacity to frighten. In her latest works, which once again incongruously deploy sumptuously applied paint to render open-source images culled from the Internet, the artist depicts vistas from around the world taken at ostensibly the same moment. Although they verge on abstraction, the canvases provoke memories by drawing on the lingua franca of documentary news photographs. Garnett's talent is for simultaneously imbuing these sublime landscapes with a hushed vastness that nearly nullifies their perilous circumstances.
The smog-filled serenity of the sun rising over a densely packed city and undulating horizon in Morning in China , 2007, is suffused with anticipation. Here Garnett's loose, impressionistic brushwork and colorful palette underscore the pace of China's rapid transformations, whether positive or negative--increasing population, burgeoning economic force, looming environmental concerns. This sense of bated breath gives way to trepidation in the twilight ambience of Harbor (2) , 2008, in which a blaze of red paint seems to stretch from the land out into the water, signaling danger in an otherwise romantic seaside landscape reminiscent of Karen Kilimnik's paintings. Though Garnett's new work may seem like a departure from her more recent themes of "strange weather" and global warming, perhaps these landscapes should be considered through another definition of weather --as an inquiry into how long we can withstand our current conditions. Right now, they seem like a forecast of things to come.
-- Lauren O'Neill-Butler

Night (2007) 60 x 78 inches. Oil on canvas.

March 6-12, 2008 Issue 649

Winkleman Gallery, through Mar 15

Joy Garnett's exhibition consists of four large paintings: an urban vista in early morning, an explosion caught at midday, a seascape at dusk and a burning structure at night. Although these scenes look like they could be representing imaginary places, they are in fact based on news photos from the Internet. By charging her source material with Munch-like painterly intensity, the artist transforms impersonal images that ordinarily warrant a passing glance into scenes that rivet the eye.

The results throw into sharp relief the vast differences in "speed" between painting and photography: Between the time it takes to snap a picture and create a canvas, and the degree of contemplation required for looking at art as opposed to perusing pictures on the Web.

In Noon, a rainbow of colors explodes from some unnamed site, and indeed whatever events led to the violence in this image could have taken place almost anywhere at any time. Similarly, Night uses a simple palette of red, black and white to depict the smoldering aftermath of 9/11, but despite Garnett's evocation of glowing flames and structural remnants, one wouldn't necessarily know that this is the World Trade Center. In her hands, a pervasively familiar yet traumatic event becomes strangely anonymous.

Reducing complex events to fleeting impressions can run the risk of trivializing them. Yet by memorializing images like these, which have been the focus of global media attention, Garnett makes them symbolic -- and gives them a history outside of current events.

-- Jennifer Coates

Interview on NewArtTV.com

Posted: 03/02/08
Duration: 3:27 minutes
Producer: NewArtTV

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Joy Garnett gets painterly with photographs culled from the Internet.

Joy Garnett: New Paintings
February 15 - March 15, 2008
opening reception:
Thursday, February 21, 6-8pm
Winkleman Gallery
637 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Morning in China (2007) 60 x 70 inches. Oil on canvas.

Come check out my work at Winkleman Gallery :

PULSE Miami, December 5-9, 2007

Winkleman Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in the PULSE Miami art fair, December 5-9, 2007.

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PULSE Miami
SoHo Studios
2136 NW 1st Ave (Entrance @ NW 21st St. )
Miami, FL 33127
Wynwood District

Wednesday, December 5 - Sunday December 9, 2007
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FAIR HOURS
Wednesday, December 5, 10pm - 4pm
Thursday, December 6, 10am - 6pm
Friday, December 7, 10am - 6pm
Saturday, December 8, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, December 9, 10am - 5pm

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Winkleman Gallery will be featuring new work by Ivin Ballen, Cathy Begien, Jennifer Dalton, Rory Donaldson, Christopher K. Ho, David Kinast, Joy Garnett, Christopher Lowry Johnson, Carlos Motta, Thomas Lendvai, Jimbo Blachly and Lytle Shaw, and Sarah Peters.

This summer I have work in several group shows in NY , including this one which opens Aug. 2 (unfortunately I won't be in town for the opening):

Her next solo show, STRANGE WEATHER , will open to the Public May 5 (thru July 31) 2007 at the National Academy of Sciences , Washington, DC.

Garnett's subject is the apocalyptic-sublime and the intersections of media, politics and culture. Her paintings, based on documentary photographs she samples from the internet, exploit the accessibility and malleability of images in the media. She has written and lectured widely about open source culture, intellectual property and fair use from an artist's point of view. On the subject of painting and appropriating news images, read the February '06 interview with Lyra Kilston ( ArtL!es , Brooklyn Rail ) or read her " Image Junkie " article on NYFA Current (2005).
Her 2001 solo exhibition ROCKET SCIENCE was accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Bruce Sterling and Manuel DeLanda .
OTHER ONGOING PROJECTS
NEWSgrist
founded 2000; cited as a "notable blog" in Art in America .
StrangeWeather.info
art, exhibitions and publications about strange weather and climate change.
The Bomb Project
a comprehensive resource of nuclear related links organized for artists.

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 2005

Recent Exhibition:
IMAGE WAR
Contesting Images of Political Conflict
CATALOGUE AVAILABLE
Examining recent artistic practices that explore media representations of war and conflict.
May 19 - June 25, 2006

Organized by the 2005-06 fellows of the
Whitney Independent Study Program :
Benjamin Godsill, Stamatina Gregory,
Katy Rogers, Susanne O. Saether
The Art Gallery of the Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave @ 34th Street
gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12-6pm
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(2003 - 2005)
2-channel DVD installation
or single-channel split-screen
Music by Ben Neill
Produced by Bill Jones
Dominic Sunset is a dual channel DVD installation about nuclear weapons testing and the apocalyptic sublime landscape. Both videos are remixes of declassified footage of nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Nevada desert and the Pacific arena during the Cold War.
CREATIVE COMMONS: Talks + Conferences
In April 2006 I took part in the COMEDIES OF FAIR U$E conference at the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU. Panelists, in addition to organisers Lawrence Lessig and Institute director Lawrence Weschler included:

Photographer Susan Meiselas
Painter Joy Garnett
Novelist Jonathan Lethem
Comix artist Art Spiegelman
Essayist Geoff Dyer (Out of Sheer Rage, The Ongoing Moment)
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris
Joel Wachs, head of the Andy Warhol Foundation
Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit
NYU's Siva Vaidhyanathan ( Copyrights and Copywrongs )
Essayist Lewis Hyde ( The Gift, Trickster Makes This World )
NYU's Lawrence Ferrara , expert on musical issues
Carrie McLaren of Stay Free
James Boyle , of digital environmentalist movement ( Shaman, Software, and Spleens ) and others

Here's some info and a video of my talk: