Painting the ‘Apocalyptic Sublime’

JOY GARNETT

March 2010

Source Material

• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism

Joy Garnett: Rocket Science. (2001) 28 x 38 inches. Oil on canvas.

Joy Garnett: Yellow Smoke. (2009). Oil on canvas. 26 x 30 inches.

Joy Garnett: Explosion, Yellow & White (2009)Oil on canvas. 32 x 26 inches

Joy Garnett: Crash. (2009) 38 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas

Declassified Cold War Imagery

Joy Garnett: Bikini (1997) 20 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas.

Joy Garnett: Fireball with Joshua Trees (1998) 48 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas.

Joy Garnett:Christmas Island (1998) 50 x 42 inches. Oil on canvas.

Joy Garnett: Boltzman (1999) 20 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas.

“Castle Bravo”High yield thermonuclear weapons test (H-bomb) detonated on an artificial

island at Bikini Atoll February 28, 1954 (GMT)

Frederick Church: Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860

Paris Riots

Joy Garnett: Paris Riots (3) 2005. 11 x 14 inches. Oil on canvas

Joy Garnett: Paris Riots (6) 2005. 15 x 20 inches. Oil on canvas.

“Strange Weather”

Hurricane Katrina

Joy Garnett: Plume 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas

Joy Garnett: Flood 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas.

Joy Garnett: Flood 5 (2006) 54 x 60 inches. oil/canvas.

Joy Garnett: Dusk (2007). 30 x 38 inches. Oil on canvas.

Joy Garnett: Noon. (2007) 56 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.

The Media Narrative

Joy Garnett: News Anchor (Kabul) (2002) 26 x 32 inches. Oil on canvas

Joy Garnett: Night Vision, Baghdad (2006) 38 x 44 inches, Oil/canvas

Joy Garnett: Road. (2007) 35 x 38 inches. oil on canvas

Joy Garnett: Jog. 2003. 26 x 46 inches. Oil/canvas

Joy Garnett: Oil. (2008) 38 x 44 inches. Oil on canvas

Gerhard Richter:RaketeRocket 1966 93 cm X 73 cm Oil on canvas Catalogue Raisonné: 110-2

Thomas Ruff: jpeg ny02 (2004) 8 ft. 10 in. x 11 ft. 11 3/8 in

Peter Doig: 100 Years Ago [Carrera] 2001Collection Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, ParisOil on canvas. 229x358cm

Joy Garnett: Black Water (2009) 60 x 70 inches. Oil/canvas

All paintings by Joy Garnett appear here courtesy of the artist and Winkleman Gallery, New York. They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Other images appearing for the purpose of this lecture may be licensed separately.