Summary

Plume 2 (Strange Weather series)

2005

26 x 46 inches;

Oil on canvas

Courtesy of The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

SOLO EXHIBITION

"Strange Weather", National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (Jan-July, 2007)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

"Out of the Blue", Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA (Mar-May 2006)

"Prevailing Climate" at Sara Meltzer gallery in Chelsea (NYC), reviewed by Holland Cotter in the NYTimes.

Excerpt from a recent blog post about the show:

[...] The rest of "Prevailing Climate" is relatively strong. Works by Joan Linder, Joy Garnett, Jason Middlebrook and Anna von Mertens standout. Attractive - indeed, almost decorative - the two oil paintings included by Garnett are deceptive. Her subject matter, garnered from online news media, is associated with warfare, be it images of prisoners, war machines, military officers or torn landscapes. The two pieces included in "Prevailing Climate" belong to this last group. Calling to mind work by the Romantic painters, Turner and Friedrich, Garnett's burning, red-and-orange vistas are as disturbing as they are beautiful. In this sense, they are sublime, in the traditional sense, inspiring awe and a little fear. Looking at the work, particularly the smaller of the two, "Plume 2 (Strange Weather Series)," I find myself wondering what effect the super abundance of such images in our media has on our moral response. Have we, as a society, learned to cope by abstracting these violent, troubling scenes, ignoring the documented wrongs by treating them as we do a friend's postcard from abroad?

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