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Doreen Lynette Garner, Purge, 2017. Performance: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. Courtesy of the artist, JTT, New York, and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. Photo: Lexie Moreland
Exhibition
Doreen Lynette Garner: Revolted
30 Jun 2022 – 16 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Adult: $18 (Concessions available)
Address
- 235 Bowery
- New York
New York - NY 10002
- United States
Travel Information
- From the East Side of Manhattan Take the downtown 6 train to Spring Street. Exit the station and walk one block north on Lafayette Street to Prince Street. Turn right and proceed until Prince Street ends four blocks later at Bowery. From the West Side of Manhattan Take the downtown N or R train to Prince Street. Exit the station and proceed east on Prince Street for six blocks to Bowery. You may also take the downtown D or F train to Broadway/ Lafayette. Walk three blocks east to Bowery and turn right two blocks to Prince Street. From Brooklyn Take the Manhattan-bound F train to 2nd Avenue. Exit at Houston Street and walk one block west to Bowery. Turn left, and proceed two blocks south to Prince Street. From Queens Take the Manhattan-bound F train to 2nd Avenue. Exit at Houston Street and walk one block west to Bowery. Turn left, and proceed two blocks south to Prince Street.
This exhibition presents new commissioned works by sculptor and performance artist Doreen Lynette Garner.
About
The New Museum will premiere a solo presentation of new works by Doreen Lynette Garner (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA), whose sculptural and performance practice examines the suppressed histories of medical experimentation, malpractice, and exploitation enacted upon Black people. Deploying the slippage between the beautiful and the grotesque, Garner’s intricate sculptures—often comprised of silicone, insulation foam, glass, beads, crystals, pearls, synthetic hair, and other materials—uncannily evoke corporeal flesh, organs, and wounds. While Black women remain at the center of her practice, Garner has recently shifted her focus to rendering white flesh to reflect on the damage inflicted by colonial and imperialist logics, including in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Whereas past projects have centered on the visceral confrontation of trauma, this body of work will focus on the notion of ancestral revenge, imagining ways to act out a ritualistic catharsis of the enduring forms of violence her work exposes. Garner’s works for the exhibition will build on her ongoing research into the inhumane practices of J. Marion Sims, an early-nineteenth-century physician once regarded as the “father of modern gynecology,” who conducted recurrent surgical operations without anesthesia on at least ten enslaved Black women, including Betsey Harris, Lucy Zimmerman, and Anarcha Wescott. This new project interrogates the allure and abuse of power, the politics of redress (a multifaceted approach to reparations), and considers the reclamation of torture as a mode of restitution.
