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Joy Garnett
Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Joy Garnett. In four large canvases Garnett continues her groundbreaking exploration of the malleability of instantly globalized images and how they have begun to replace written language as the markers of mankind's collective memory or consciousness.
Unlike her last three New York exhibitions, which centered on specific themes of conflict or violence, this grouping is united only by the loose suggestion of images possibly taken at precisely the same moment in very different locations around the world. Garnett circles the planet to underscore perhaps the unstoppable imperative of this new lingua franca. The images Garnett paints are culled from digital mass media outlets and then archived for sometimes months at a time, permitting their context to evaporate. Returning to the image with a fuzzy at best memory of what it reportedly documented, Garnett's process highlights the role misremembering plays in this new dubious "reality."
New solo show by painter Joy Garnett. Garnett was a panelist on Rhizome's 2006 talk "Open Source: On the Line" at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Her work contemplates both the digital mass media and the government's use and distribution of photographs online. Her work "The Bomb Project" (2002) may be viewed in the Rhizome Artbase.
Originally posted on ArtCal Picks by Rhizome
