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Joy Garnett is a painter based in New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is the apocalyptic-sublime landscape, as well as the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an increasingly technologized world. Her image research has resulted in online documentation projects, most notably The Bomb Project.
Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
extended network >
homepage:
http://joygarnett.com
The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org
First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/
Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
extended network >
homepage:
http://joygarnett.com
The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org
First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/
Re: Joy Garnett //Reminder: Joy Garnett: "Riot" at Debs & Co. - opening Saturday, Jan 17, 6-8pm
Joy Garnett
"Riot"
Images: http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html
January 15 - February 21, 2004
Opening: Saturday January 17, 6 - 8 p.m.
Debs & Co.
525 West 26th Street
2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
contact the gallery for more info:
212 643-2070
"Riot"
Images: http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html
January 15 - February 21, 2004
Opening: Saturday January 17, 6 - 8 p.m.
Debs & Co.
525 West 26th Street
2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
contact the gallery for more info:
212 643-2070
Joy Garnett
JOY GARNETT
RIOT
January 15th - February 21st, 2004
Debs & Co. is pleased to present Riot, a series of new paintings by Joy Garnett. Riot will be Ms. Garnett's third solo exhibition at Debs & Co.
These new paintings in Riot depict people in emotional distress, the figure in extremity. As in much of Ms. Garnett's previous work, the causes behind the explosive action are generally political in nature.
The immediate sources for these acts and images are often taken from newspapers and other media. Her re-casting of these visuals plays with the history of history painting itself.
In Molotov, the artist has painted a monumental figure of a longhaired youth in a black beret throwing a freshly lit Molotov cocktail. The heroically- proportioned figure twists off the frame of the painting, his home-made bomb front and center, the recognizable logo of the cola bottle smeared into a not-so-funny red, white and blue, while his face is contorted into a sneer of pure hatred. Whatever background existed in the original image has been reduced to the blank grayish blue of smoke. The figure, in his moment of action, is removed from his surroundings; the context, cause, time and place, or justice of his actions are irrelevant and not portrayed. What is important to the painter is the extremity of the figure's emotions, not whether they are right or wrong.
In Air Strip, Ms. Garnett portrays a man and woman in a deep embrace. The familiar looking couple stand in the center of the large horizontal canvas, their stance uncomfortably intimate and awkward. In this painting, the background, while abstracted, is recognizable as a desert air field, and the nose-cones behind the man's shoulder and his own Air Force fighter pilot uniform signal that this is a farewell taken from our current war. Nevertheless, Ms. Garnett depicts the two in a twister of baroque impasto which renders whatever political meaning originally intended for the image utterly banal, or even camp. The point here is passion, and the experience of it.
The notion of heightened emotion removed from cause is particularly evident in paintings such as Jump and Leap, in which young men jump through the fires lit during World Trade Organization protests. The riot is here exterior and interior: the young men risk life and limb for no particular purpose, other than the thrill of it. The ecstasy experienced has no real connection with the original intention of the protests; these boys have shown up after the fact to play with fire for the sake of playing with fire.
Ms. Garnett will exhibit concurrently at the Puffin Foundation in Teaneck, NJ, in an exhibition called Shocked and Awed. The artist has recently appeared in Without Fear or Reproach, curated by Jerome Jacobs in Ghent, Belgium, Americana at SVA, curated by Anne Ellegood and Rachel Gugelberger and in The UFO Show at Illinois State University Galleries; in 2004 she will appear in Atomica at the Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern,
Paradise Lost at Van Brunt Gallery, For Real: War and the Contemporary Audience at Stony Brook University, and at other venues including the National Academy of Sciences and the Maxwell Art Gallery (UK).
Ms. Garnett had her first solo exhibition at Debs & Co. in 1999 and her second in 2001. In 2002, she was the curator of Night Vision, a traveling exhibition which was shown at White Columns here in New York. She received her MFA from the City College of New York in 1991 and studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1985 to 1987. She lives and works in New York City.
artist bio:
http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html
Debs & Co.
http://www.debsandco.com
525 West 26th Street
2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
212 643-2070
info@debsandco.com
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RIOT
January 15th - February 21st, 2004
Debs & Co. is pleased to present Riot, a series of new paintings by Joy Garnett. Riot will be Ms. Garnett's third solo exhibition at Debs & Co.
These new paintings in Riot depict people in emotional distress, the figure in extremity. As in much of Ms. Garnett's previous work, the causes behind the explosive action are generally political in nature.
The immediate sources for these acts and images are often taken from newspapers and other media. Her re-casting of these visuals plays with the history of history painting itself.
In Molotov, the artist has painted a monumental figure of a longhaired youth in a black beret throwing a freshly lit Molotov cocktail. The heroically- proportioned figure twists off the frame of the painting, his home-made bomb front and center, the recognizable logo of the cola bottle smeared into a not-so-funny red, white and blue, while his face is contorted into a sneer of pure hatred. Whatever background existed in the original image has been reduced to the blank grayish blue of smoke. The figure, in his moment of action, is removed from his surroundings; the context, cause, time and place, or justice of his actions are irrelevant and not portrayed. What is important to the painter is the extremity of the figure's emotions, not whether they are right or wrong.
In Air Strip, Ms. Garnett portrays a man and woman in a deep embrace. The familiar looking couple stand in the center of the large horizontal canvas, their stance uncomfortably intimate and awkward. In this painting, the background, while abstracted, is recognizable as a desert air field, and the nose-cones behind the man's shoulder and his own Air Force fighter pilot uniform signal that this is a farewell taken from our current war. Nevertheless, Ms. Garnett depicts the two in a twister of baroque impasto which renders whatever political meaning originally intended for the image utterly banal, or even camp. The point here is passion, and the experience of it.
The notion of heightened emotion removed from cause is particularly evident in paintings such as Jump and Leap, in which young men jump through the fires lit during World Trade Organization protests. The riot is here exterior and interior: the young men risk life and limb for no particular purpose, other than the thrill of it. The ecstasy experienced has no real connection with the original intention of the protests; these boys have shown up after the fact to play with fire for the sake of playing with fire.
Ms. Garnett will exhibit concurrently at the Puffin Foundation in Teaneck, NJ, in an exhibition called Shocked and Awed. The artist has recently appeared in Without Fear or Reproach, curated by Jerome Jacobs in Ghent, Belgium, Americana at SVA, curated by Anne Ellegood and Rachel Gugelberger and in The UFO Show at Illinois State University Galleries; in 2004 she will appear in Atomica at the Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern,
Paradise Lost at Van Brunt Gallery, For Real: War and the Contemporary Audience at Stony Brook University, and at other venues including the National Academy of Sciences and the Maxwell Art Gallery (UK).
Ms. Garnett had her first solo exhibition at Debs & Co. in 1999 and her second in 2001. In 2002, she was the curator of Night Vision, a traveling exhibition which was shown at White Columns here in New York. She received her MFA from the City College of New York in 1991 and studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1985 to 1987. She lives and works in New York City.
artist bio:
http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html
Debs & Co.
http://www.debsandco.com
525 West 26th Street
2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
212 643-2070
info@debsandco.com
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For Immediate release: Shocked & Awed
The Puffin Foundation
announces:
Shocked & Awed: Iraqi Children Depict "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
January 17 through March 5, 2004
Curated by Carl Rosenstein
http://puffinfoundation.org/forum/calendarindex.html
Puffin Foundation Ltd.
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111
Collected in Iraq by Patrick Dillon:
Drawings by the children of the Al Assail School, Baghdad, June 2003
With paintings and video installations by Joy Garnett, drawings by Derek
Mainhart, with "1984" set installations by Jiyun Park and Tim Blunk.
<<Free and open to the public>>
"Shocked and Awed" presents drawings created by children in Baghdad only
weeks after the intense bombardment of the city ceased. Through innocent
eyes, the children depict the terror and horror they witnessed and the
madness of adults. The drawings' imagery move from the richly symbolic to
familiar children's matchstick figures. What they depict are scenes of
technological carnage that no person, let alone a child, should ever
witness.
The Al Assail drawings are augmented by new works by New York artists Joy
Garnett and Derek Mainhart. Ms. Garnett's paintings derive from the
imaging technology of warfare. Derek Mainhart's series of cartoon
drawings, Iraqi Tinies, or After the Bombing is an update of Edward
Gorey's macabre classic, The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
This month, the Cultural Forum is presenting an Off World Theatre
adaptation of Orwell's classic novel, 1984. The set for this production,
designed by Jiyun Park, and Tim Blunk will be an integral part of the
exhibition.
January 31, 2004, Sat., 8pm
Artist Reception/Celebration of Peace and Justice
Reception for the curator, Carl Rosenstein, and
artists Joy Garnett and Derek Mainhart
with special guest speakers and cultural presentation
Free and open to the public
Gallery hours: Mon. - Fri., 1pm to 5pm.
* Special appointments can be made by calling 201.836.8923.
* School, church, and community groups are encouraged to visit free of
charge.
Groups can also arrange guided tours with workshops.
To arrange group visits, please call Jiyun Park at 201.836.8923.
"1984"
adapted for the stage by Joseph Giardina
directed by Merri Milwe
with: Foss Curtis, Paul DeBoy, Elyse Knight, John Rainer, & Rob Skolits
January 17 (Sat.), 18 (Sun.), 23 (Fri.), 24 (Sat.), 25 (Sun.), 2004
Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm & Sunday performances begin
at 2pm
All tickets $10
For reservations call: 212-626-9059
The Cultural Forum's theatre company in-residence presents 1984. Oceania
is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Citizens of Oceania cannot remember a time without war. Members of the
Thought Police are constantly on the look-out for those who do not agree
with the State. The newspapers only report what the government wants us to
hear. And the records are changed to show that the government is always
correct and never contradicted itself. sound familiar? Don't miss the Off
World Theatre production of this great, prophetic book.
HUMAN RIGHTS FILM SERIES:
Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the Iraq war
January 30, 2004, Fri., 7pm
A new, provocative documentary sponsored by Moveon.org and The Center for
American Progress will reveal the distortion of intelligence by the Bush
Administration which led to the first preemptive war in the history of the
United States. Insiders at the CIA, the Pentagon, the foreign service and
the weapons inspection teams will share uncensored, hard hitting
information proving that the public was lied to about the weapons of mass
destruction.
Free and open to the public
+++
Puffin Foundation Ltd.
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111
announces:
Shocked & Awed: Iraqi Children Depict "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
January 17 through March 5, 2004
Curated by Carl Rosenstein
http://puffinfoundation.org/forum/calendarindex.html
Puffin Foundation Ltd.
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111
Collected in Iraq by Patrick Dillon:
Drawings by the children of the Al Assail School, Baghdad, June 2003
With paintings and video installations by Joy Garnett, drawings by Derek
Mainhart, with "1984" set installations by Jiyun Park and Tim Blunk.
<<Free and open to the public>>
"Shocked and Awed" presents drawings created by children in Baghdad only
weeks after the intense bombardment of the city ceased. Through innocent
eyes, the children depict the terror and horror they witnessed and the
madness of adults. The drawings' imagery move from the richly symbolic to
familiar children's matchstick figures. What they depict are scenes of
technological carnage that no person, let alone a child, should ever
witness.
The Al Assail drawings are augmented by new works by New York artists Joy
Garnett and Derek Mainhart. Ms. Garnett's paintings derive from the
imaging technology of warfare. Derek Mainhart's series of cartoon
drawings, Iraqi Tinies, or After the Bombing is an update of Edward
Gorey's macabre classic, The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
This month, the Cultural Forum is presenting an Off World Theatre
adaptation of Orwell's classic novel, 1984. The set for this production,
designed by Jiyun Park, and Tim Blunk will be an integral part of the
exhibition.
January 31, 2004, Sat., 8pm
Artist Reception/Celebration of Peace and Justice
Reception for the curator, Carl Rosenstein, and
artists Joy Garnett and Derek Mainhart
with special guest speakers and cultural presentation
Free and open to the public
Gallery hours: Mon. - Fri., 1pm to 5pm.
* Special appointments can be made by calling 201.836.8923.
* School, church, and community groups are encouraged to visit free of
charge.
Groups can also arrange guided tours with workshops.
To arrange group visits, please call Jiyun Park at 201.836.8923.
"1984"
adapted for the stage by Joseph Giardina
directed by Merri Milwe
with: Foss Curtis, Paul DeBoy, Elyse Knight, John Rainer, & Rob Skolits
January 17 (Sat.), 18 (Sun.), 23 (Fri.), 24 (Sat.), 25 (Sun.), 2004
Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm & Sunday performances begin
at 2pm
All tickets $10
For reservations call: 212-626-9059
The Cultural Forum's theatre company in-residence presents 1984. Oceania
is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Citizens of Oceania cannot remember a time without war. Members of the
Thought Police are constantly on the look-out for those who do not agree
with the State. The newspapers only report what the government wants us to
hear. And the records are changed to show that the government is always
correct and never contradicted itself. sound familiar? Don't miss the Off
World Theatre production of this great, prophetic book.
HUMAN RIGHTS FILM SERIES:
Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the Iraq war
January 30, 2004, Fri., 7pm
A new, provocative documentary sponsored by Moveon.org and The Center for
American Progress will reveal the distortion of intelligence by the Bush
Administration which led to the first preemptive war in the history of the
United States. Insiders at the CIA, the Pentagon, the foreign service and
the weapons inspection teams will share uncensored, hard hitting
information proving that the public was lied to about the weapons of mass
destruction.
Free and open to the public
+++
Puffin Foundation Ltd.
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111
Re: Feds and Adobe forbid you from scanning currency
here's an interesting discussion about it I read a few days ago on mefi,
including a few simple ways around it--still, it does not bode well.
where's mr. lessig these days?:
"Photoshop BS"
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/30610
cheers,
joy
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, t.whid wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61877,00.html
>
> The really disgusting thing about this that Adobe didn't inform their
> customers.
>
> Another reason to stick with Photoshop 7?
>
>
including a few simple ways around it--still, it does not bode well.
where's mr. lessig these days?:
"Photoshop BS"
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/30610
cheers,
joy
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, t.whid wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61877,00.html
>
> The really disgusting thing about this that Adobe didn't inform their
> customers.
>
> Another reason to stick with Photoshop 7?
>
>
Re: you are being mapped
never MUCKed around much myself, but here:
Nexus: Your Guide to the World of MUCKS
http://www.mind-bender.org/nexus/
Nexus: Your Guide to the World of MUCKS
http://www.mind-bender.org/nexus/