Joy Garnett
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Joy Garnett is an artist based in New York. She studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. Garnett's subject is the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics and culture. Her paintings, based on documentary photographs she appropriates from the Internet, exploit the accessibility and malleability of images in the media. Her work is often associated with sampling in new media and appropriation (art).
Garnett's work is exhibited widely, and has been reproduced in numerous publications including Harper's, Perspecta: The Yale School of Architecture Journal [1], and Cabinet magazine. In 2004 she received a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman foundation. She currently serves as Arts Editor at Cultural Politics [2], an internationally refereed journal published by Berg, Oxford, UK.
