Techniques
“My paintings examine how we engage and consume images in the media. I am particularly interested in the conflicts that arise between documentary image-making and painting, between mass media outlets and art viewing contexts... these paintings are visceral re-imaginings of current events both far and near; they echo epic social and geological shifts by allowing the source imagery to break apart, nearly into abstraction. This process allows me to explore the apocalyptic-sublime landscape as instantly globalized image. My subject is at once the content of these found images, and the digital image itself as the new lingua franca of our increasingly networked world.”
—Artist's Statement
Garnett is well known for her appropriation of journalistic images in her paintings. She collects images from news sources on the internet and saves them in her archives, usually without noting the source or original photographer. Later, she recreates them in the form of oil painting on canvas. Each painting is produced in one sitting. Stylistically, the results are expressionist as opposed to photorealist.
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