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Art News:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 8,
2010
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Joy
Garnett
Sploosh
Oil on
canvas
54" x
60"
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image.
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Joy
Garnett
O.P.P
Oil on
canvas
60" x
70"
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image.
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Joy
Garnett
Roil
Oil on
canvas
54" x
60"
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image.
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Nam June
Paik
Postcard to John J. O'Connor (from
Mexico)
1979(?)
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image.
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Nam June
Paik
"Happy Halloween" (Videography magazine
collage)
1976
mixed
media
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image.
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Joy Garnett
Boom &
Bust
Oct 15 - Nov 13,
2010
Opening: Friday, October 15, 2010, 6-8
pm
Winkleman Gallery is
very pleased to present “Boom & Bust,” our second solo
exhibition by New York artist Joy Garnett. In six dazzling new
paintings, Garnett continues her investigation of sublime spectacle through
works on canvas sourced from photography of military events. For the
“Boom
& Bust” series, her focus has shifted to the sky. Gone are the horizon
lines or objects on the ground used to convey a sense of scale in her other
works. Instead, Garnett’s explosive, phantasmagorical shapes evoke
painterly tropes and pop iconography. They also bring to mind the psychological,
cultural, and economic cycles of creation and
destruction.
Garnett continues to develop her methods of
the past decade, pulling source images from the Internet and other mass media
outlets, where there is never any shortage of spectacular and apocalyptic
imagery. Acknowledging that news footage and generic imagery of war, natural
disasters and man-made catastrophes form much of our common, day-to-day
experience both directly and through their derivatives in movies, gaming,
television and entertainment culture, Garnett’s work diverts such imagery
yet again through the “lens” of her painting, rendering it with a
twist that is personal, playful, and
moving.
Without a horizon line, the frame of both
landscape and painting is suddenly afloat, aloft, escaping the original
narratives of their source imagery and representations as we might come across
them in vernacular settings. This approach permits a direct exploration through
specific traditions in painting, as well as pop culture motifs. Hence, while
presenting us with a central explosive form, each painting draws upon a range of
cultural tropes, from the loose geometry of "O.P.P." and the evocative homage of
"Rose," to the cartoon-like whoosh of air in "Poof" [pictured above], and the
cataclysmic but no less compelling abyss of
"Lost."
As Garnett has written about this work:
“Perhaps perversely, the very unctuous medium of paint is an excellent
tool to turn on the dominant form of the image today, which is electronic and
photo-based. Paint offers us a real counterpoint as a material and as a mode of
communication, and it packs a serious backlog of motifs, languages and genres
that can be called into play literally with the flick of a wrist. What’s
important to me, from the point of view of someone who makes paintings, is to
allow the viewer to come to any meanings – any interpretations of content
– on their own. What matters most is
contemplation.”
Joy Garnett's paintings, based on images
she gathers from the Internet, examine the apocalyptic sublime at the
intersections of media, politics and culture. Notable past exhibitions
include”That Was Then...This Is Now,” MoMA P.S.1
and “Image War,” Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a
recipient of a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman, and serves as Arts Editor for
the scholarly journal Cultural Politics. Garnett lives and works in New
York.
For more information, please contact Edward
Winkleman at 212.643.3152 or info@winkleman.com.
Or visit the Winkleman Gallery
website.
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To John J. O'Connor from Nam June
Paik
Organized by Seymour
Barofsky
Oct 15 - Nov 13,
2010
Opening: Friday, October 15, 2010, 6-8
pm
Beginning in the
1970s, in response to the early appreciation expressed in reviews of his artwork
appearing in The New York Times, artist Nam June Paik mailed a
stream of materials to the Times’ television critic John J.
O’Connor. In one of his earlier letters, Paik declared
O’Connor “the savior of video art itself.” For more than two
decades Paik kept him abreast of his thoughts, work, and
travels.
“To John J. O’Connor from Nam
June Paik” comprises a selection of the letters, drawings, postcards,
holiday greetings, and annotated books and articles sent by Paik and set aside
by O’Connor over the years. Serious, yet full of whimsy, they remain as
telling and delightful as they were when they were meant to charm a newspaper
reviewer. They offer an insight into the long-term interaction of a significant
and groundbreaking artist and an important and influential critic of his
work.
The exhibition, which includes a sampling of
O’Connor’s writing on Paik as well as an example of Paik’s
work that was broadcast on television, is a fascinating record of the mutual
appreciation of an artist and critic. It is timed to coincide with and
commemorate the first anniversary of the death of John J.
O’Connor.
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a
leading exponent of media-based art. He has had a profound influence on art,
video and
television.
John J. O’Connor (1933-2009)
was television critic of The New York Times from 1971 to 1997. Before
that he had been arts editor of the Wall Street
Journal.
The exhibit was organized by Seymour
Barofsky, a former editor (Schocken Books, Random House, etc.) and
teacher.
For more information, please contact Edward
Winkleman at 212.643.3152 or info@winkleman.com.
Or visit the Curatorial Research Lab
website.
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Winkleman
Gallery
621 West 27th
Street
New York, NY
10001
t:
212.643.3152
www.winkleman.com
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