Artist Statement
These are some examples of "found drawings" I've been shooting on the street. This is material that just barely falls out of step, jumps away or breaks off from what is expected. The unintended forms suggest a variety of artistic tropes, are often funny and sometimes melancholy. I've been shooting these images for the past few years as I go about my daily business. Later I post the pics to the web.
The second group are black ink wash drawings based on public relations images from China's Yangtse Three Gorges Development Corporation website. They evoke landscapes at the crossroads of nationalist propaganda and eco-rhetoric. (The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower-complex project in the world, taking over three decades to build, and has become a major environmental nightmare).
The third group are colored ink drawings drawn from a series called "Today's News." Their source images are news photos cut from the local newspapers in a small town in upstate New York. Drawing shifts their focus in unexpected ways, removing them from the context of "news". The titles are drawn from the original captions and headlines, and function as an equivocal or tenuous connection to the original stories.
Artist Bio / CV
EDUCATION
MFA City College of New York
L'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
SOLO SHOWS
2010
Boom + Bust. Winkleman Gallery, NY
China Three Gorges Project. Roger Williams Univ. School of Architecture, Bristol, RI
2008
Joy Garnett. Winkleman Gallery, NY
Scoundrel Time. Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
2007
Strange Weather. Nat’l Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2004
Riot. Debs & Co., NY
2001
Rocket Science. Debs & Co., NY
1999
Buster-Jangle. Debs & Co., NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2009
On Aggression. Philoctetes Center, NY
The There. Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008
That Was Then...This Is Now. MoMA P.S.1, LIC, NY
Atomic Afterimage. Boston Univ. Art Gallery
2007
Double X-Rated: Where the Girls Are. Stellan Holm Gallery, NY
Greener Pastures, Permanent Midnight. Moti Hasson Gallery, NY
project:rendition. Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Image War. Whitney Museum, NY
Prevailing Climate. Sara Meltzer Galley, NY
When Artists Say We. Artists Space, NY
Run For Your Lives! DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2005
Atomica. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, NY
Regarding Clementine. Clementine Gallery, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Lori Cole, Artforum.com: Things Fall Apart, Winkleman Gallery.
Jillian Steinhauer, ARTINFO: Art for Troubled Times: 'Things Fall Apart.'
2008
Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Artforum.com: Joy Garnett, Winkleman Gallery
Jennifer Coates, TimeOutNY: Joy Garnett, Winkleman Gallery
2007
Holland Cotter, NYTimes: Double X-Rated: Where The Girls Are.
The New Yorker: Project Rendition.
2006
Holland Cotter, NYTimes: Prevailing Climate at Sara Meltzer Gallery.
2005
RC. Baker, Village Voice: Atomica, Lombard-Freid
2004
The New Yorker: Joy Garnett, Riot.
Roberta Smith, NYTimes: The Infinite Fill Group Show.
Karen Rosenberg, NY Magazine: Galleries Exercise 1st Amendment Rights.
2002
The New Yorker: Night Vision.
2001
Hilarie M. Sheets, ArtNews: Reinventing the Landscape.
Kevin Pratt, TimeOutNY: Joy Garnett, Rocket Science.
1999
Christopher Phillips, Art in America: Joy Garnett at Debs & Co.
Tim Griffin, TimeOutNY: Joy Garnett, 'Buster-Jangle.'
The New Yorker: Joy Garnett at Debs & Co.
Ken Johnson, NYTimes: Joy Garnett at Debs & Co.
