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| PAINTING & MASS MEDIA I paint images that are associated with the 'apocalyptic sublime', a metaphysical condition of astonishment and awe in the presence of uncanny natural, human, and technological forces. My work engages the globally common experience of mass media footage: images of war, natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, which are consumed both directly and indirectly through their derivatives in movies, gaming, television and entertainment culture. I divert such imagery yet again through the more personal 'lens' of painting. My recent series, Boom + Bust (2010), collapses flower painting, weaponization and war, media appropriation and expressionist brushwork, into single images that are at once abstract and representational. ~ Joy Garnett, NY 2011 |
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| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ BLURBS Joy Garnett is... a conspicuous presence in the current on-line debate over art's role in an increasingly technological culture. ~ Christopher Phillips, Art in America These straightforward paintings are not visual collages so much as conceptual collages; the comments on art and technology are invisible, while the planetary/atmospheric ramifications take front stage. ~ Lucy R. Lippard, Strange Weather Joy Garnett's paintings of fiery, storm-swollen skies are about turbulence in a larger sense. ~ Holland Cotter, The New York Times Garnett culls photographs of military explosions from online sources, reconstituting the harrowing, split-second images using traditional oil paint and canvas. Painting fast and loose, she renounces exactitude to embrace clunky, restless brushwork that fuses painterly glee with exasperated rage, setting the explosions adrift from both their geographical and their political contexts. ~ Sharon L. Butler, The Huffington Post |