Joy Garnett is an artist based in New York. She studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. Garnett's subject is the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics and culture. Her paintings, based on photographs she appropriates from the Internet, exploit the accessibility and malleability of images in the media.[1] Her work is often associated with sampling in new media art and with appropriation art [2]. Garnett's work has been reproduced in numerous publications including Harper's, Perspecta: The Yale School of Architecture Journal [3], and Cabinet magazine. In 2004 she received a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman foundation. She currently serves as Arts Editor at Cultural Politics [4], an internationally refereed journal published by Berg, Oxford, UK.
Selected Catalogs and Publications
- Exhibition catalog: Rocket Science; essays by Manuel De Landa and Bruce Sterling. Debs & Co., New York, NY, 2001
- Exhibition catalog: Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict; Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, NY, 2006
- Artist's multiple: Buster-Jangle; Debs & Co., New York, NY, 1999
- Artist's multiple: Night Vision; essay by Tim Griffin. First Pulse Projects, NY, 2002
- Artist's multiple: Strange Weather: New Paintings by Joy Garnett; essays by Lucy R. Lippard and Andrew C. Revkin. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 2007
- Journal article: "Follow the Image"; Field Report, Cultural Politics, 1:1 Berg, Oxford (UK), March 2005
- Journal article: "In Their Own Words: Image Junkie", NYFA Current, New York Foundation For the Arts (April 20, 2005) Vol.14, no.8
- Journal article: "Portfolio: On the Rights of Molotov Man - Appropriation and the art of context," by Joy Garnett and Susan Meiselas. Harper's Magazine (February 2007) [pp.53-58].
References
- ^ Brewer, Paul: Curator's Statement. "Blasts," G Fine Art, Washington, DC, Sept 10 - Oct 22, 2005: [1]
- ^ "Portfolio: On the Rights of Molotov Man - Appropriation and the art of context," by Joy Garnett and Susan Meiselas. Harper's Magazine (February 2007) [pp.53-58].: [2]
External links
- artists's homepage
- NEWSgrist - where spin is art, artist's blog
- Riot exhibition at Debs & Co., NY, January, 2004
- lecture given by Joy: webcast of lecture; Open Source Culture lecture series, Columbia University's Open Source Culture series, September, 2004
- lecture given by Joy: audio and slides; NYIH's Comedies of Fair U$e symposium, April, 2006
- "Joywar" archive
- lecture given by Joy: webcast of panel Open Source on the Line, presented by The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and Rhizome, December, 2006
