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Joy Garnett
Untitled (from the X-Ray series)
Oil on canvas
9 canvases, each 17 x 15 inches
1998
© 1998 Joy Garnett
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Joy Garnett
The nine small paintings by Joy Garnett, New York artist, were born out of an experience of working with her father, a biochemist. An interest in the representation of invisible events that could only be seen through microscopic or submicroscopic processes led to an awareness of the problems of visual representation itself. The paintings included in Visionary Anatomies, some of Garnett's earliest explorations in this area, are based upon a box of X rays that a friend found discarded on the street. By subjectively recreating found medical imagery, Garnett challenges the notion of science photographs being factual, neutral records, reminding us that all imagery, both scientific and artistic, requires interpretation. The anonymous documents that were once useful as diagnostic tools are now rendered as paintings hanging in a gallery rather than on a physician's light box. This transition alters the possibilities of interpretation by changing the medium as well as the context.
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