Joy Garnett is an artist based in New York. She studied painting at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. Her paintings, culled from news photographs and military documents she gathers from the Internet, examine the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics and culture. Notable past exhibitions include That Was Then...This Is Now, P.S.1/MoMA (2008), Image War, Whitney Museum of American Art (2006), and Without Fear or Reproach, Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium (2003). Garnett is a 2004 recipient of a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman, and is the Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, a scholarly journal focusing on media, politics and culture. She is represented by Winkleman Gallery, New York City.
Garnett's work engages contemporary consumption of media and is often associated with sampling in new media art and with appropriation. Controversy surrounding her 2003 painting Molotov has drawn scrutiny to issues of fair use in visual art. Her work and writings have been published in numerous publications including Harper's, Perspecta: The Yale School of Architecture Journal, and Cabinet. Watch for her forthcoming article, "Radicalizing Refamiliarization," in The Journal of Visual Culture (Aug 2009), co-authored with John Armitage. A discussion of her work will appear in Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies, (Polity, London; Henan University Press, Beijing, 2010).
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