Dear friends,
if you happen to be in Washington DC next Sunday…
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Strange Weather: New Paintings by Joy Garnett
http://www.firstpulseprojects.net/jg_2006/StrangeWeather-NAS.html
"Strange Weather," an exhibition of paintings by Joy Garnett
depicting environmental catastrophes, will be on public view from May
8 through July 30 at the National Academy of Sciences' headquarters,
located at 2100 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Artist's reception: Sunday, May 27, 1-3pm
Joy Garnett gathers photographs of man-made and natural disasters
from the Internet and renders the images as richly textured oil
paintings. In the process, she locates tensions between the visceral
power of paint and the fleeting nature of images in the mass media,
addressing the evolving role of art in an information-saturated
society.
Curated for the National Academy of Sciences, the exhibition focuses
on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 'Strange Weather,' Garnett
takes widely distributed news images of a devastated New Orleans and
recasts them as paintings in which geological, political, and
sociological weather are inextricably intertwined.
Lucy Lippard writes: "'Strange Weather' is an astute understatement
for what the world is undergoing. Equally strange is the apathy with
which news of cataclysmic change is being received. Garnett's work
reflects that change in a deceptively conventional manner…
Landscape painting contains its own paradoxes in these days of
photographic ascendancy, when photographs have finally been
recognized as no more 'truthful' than any other medium. Curiously, the
distance afforded by a painting permits a more intimate experience
of the effects of Katrina than the fragmented, momentary blitz of
media photography. By reinventing her photographic sources, Garnett
gives us time to be there, in place, on solid ground, however
terrifying that may be."
Based in New York City, Joy Garnett studied painting at the Ecole
Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and received her MFA
from the City College of New York. Her paintings were recently
exhibited in "Image War," organized by the Whitney Museum of American
Art , New York City, and "Run For Your Lives!" at DiverseWorks,
Houston. In 2004, she received a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman
Foundation. Garnett will attend the 2007 iCommons Summit in
Dubrovnik, Croatia as Artist in Residence. She serves as Arts Editor
for the journal Cultural Politics.
For more than 20 years, the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural
Programs of the National Academy of Sciences has sponsored
exhibitions, concerts, and other events that explore relationships
among the arts and sciences.
Image:
http://www.firstpulseprojects.net/jg_2006/StrangeWeather-NAS2.html
Joy Garnett
Flood 5, 2006
oil on canvas
54 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the artist
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'Strange Weather' exhibition: Opening reception May 27, 2007
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Type: discussion