Painting the ‘Apocalyptic Sublime’

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OCTOBER 2010

Source Material

• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works

Dad’s Lab…

Science Textbooks, TV shows, Time-Life books… The Internet

Source Material

• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works

Declassified Cold War Imagery

Declassified government files

"Trinity" July 16, 1945the first nuclear test 

Alamogordo Test Range Jornada del Muerte Desert

(“Journey of Death”) New Mexico

The Rapatronic is a Camera made by the EG&G Co. in the 1950's to photograph atomic explosions at the rate of 1/1,000,000 of a second.

"Dog“, November 1, 1951Operation Buster-Jangle, Nevada Test Site, Area 7

1417 Foot Airdrop from B-50

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

island at Bikini Atoll February 28, 1954 (GMT)

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.

Frederick Church: Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860

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

Rocket Science

Public military documents

Television: Night vision / Tracer fire : The First Gulf War (CNN)

Kosovo: Gun camera imagery (Mpeg)

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

Source Material

• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works

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

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.

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.

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

Source Material

• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works

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

Boom & Bust:

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Boom & Bust:

Paintings, drawings, prints

Boom & Bust:

SOURCE BOOK

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.

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