Garner confronts viewers with the unspeakable abuses perpetrated on the bodies — and subjectivities — of Black women.
Doreen Garner
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An Artist Borrows from Obscure Books for a Pop-Up Tattoo Shop
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
Doreen Garner and Kenya (Robinson)’s two-person exhibition examines the bloody history of white male supremacy and evokes the notion of karmic retribution.
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Art that Evokes the Uncanny Body
The works in Stranger Things at Outpost Artists Resources highlight the high stakes of our attitudes toward human bodies.
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The Pain and Privilege of Dissecting Bodies
Doreen Garner’s sculptures vividly evoke the violence done to black women’s bodies in the name of science and beauty.