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Doreen Garner

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Doreen Garner’s Visceral, Bodily Sculptures Confront Racial Trauma

Avatar photo by Ana Tuazon May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Garner confronts viewers with the unspeakable abuses perpetrated on the bodies — and subjectivities — of Black women.

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An Artist Borrows from Obscure Books for a Pop-Up Tattoo Shop

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino April 11, 2018April 11, 2018

For her tattoo designs, Doreen Garner mined the Reanimation Library, a collection of obscure books, finding hand signals and “the occasional escalator going up into a vagina.”

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Toppling the White Man on the Pedestal

by Forrest Muelrath December 21, 2017December 22, 2017

Doreen Garner and Kenya (Robinson)’s two-person exhibition examines the bloody history of white male supremacy and evokes the notion of karmic retribution.

Jes Fan, "Disposed to Add" (2017), silicone
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Art that Evokes the Uncanny Body

by Rain Embuscado June 30, 2017June 30, 2017

The works in Stranger Things at Outpost Artists Resources highlight the high stakes of our attitudes toward human bodies.

Doreen Garner, "Flora: Viscera" (2016, detail)
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The Pain and Privilege of Dissecting Bodies

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 12, 2016October 12, 2016

Doreen Garner’s sculptures vividly evoke the violence done to black women’s bodies in the name of science and beauty.

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