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March 6, 2003
SANDY GARNETT RECONSTRUCTIONS AT PALET

palet is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of oil and acrylic paintings by New York artist Sandy Garnett. Reconstructions has been evolving since 1997 and the body of work is representative of Garnett’s argument - contrary to Arthur Danto’s notion that the history of art has ended - that art is a language and therefore never ends, that genres in art are like letters in the alphabet and when combined create new words and stories the best of which reflect the era that produces them.

Self-taught, fluent in a number of painting styles, respectful of traditional painting techniques, Garnett weaves disparate genres into spatial narrative tapestries that manage to engage polarized genres of the art world. By dripping paint and working space in quasi-abstract ways a palpable tension between abstraction and representational painting emerges in these new works.

In the “The Schoolyard”, a seven by eight foot oil painting that depicts a violent narrative reflective of the American condition, viewers see a powerful story while also falling into the formal complexities of Garnett’s Reconstructions. In his portraits, the images are visually compelling, emotionally charged, and reinforce Garnett’s intriguing and timely perspective of the contemporary art world.

Sandy Garnett was born at Fort Belvoir, Virginia in 1970. He has had solo exhibitions at the Rosenthal and Sackler Galleries in Stamford, Connecticut, and in a three-person exhibition at DWG Art Space in New York City. His work is represented in the collections of the GM Museum, Pepsico, Chevrolet, Corcoran Jennison, St. Lawrence University, and the Town of Stamford, Connecticut.

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