JOYCE GARNER
Paintings available from Trifecta Gallery

Joyce Garner documents her rich inner world with images of acrobats, wanderers, animals, magic, city and forest in large, vividly-pigmented surrealist paintings. These works move and refresh the viewer’s eye with evocative details, veiled layers of paint, and undulating patterns. A native Kentuckian, Joyce’s earliest influences are from American pop culture including television, comics, coloring books, fairy tales, and the lamplit realities of rural living. Joyce describes her work as “a world of my own making”.

 
Queen of HeartsSeaside by Joyce Garner; 56 x 78

"Queen of Hearts"
48 x 48"   oil on linen

"Seaside"
56 x 78"  oil on linen

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Givaudan Roure, Cincinnati, OH
Peach Tree Center, International Tower (lobby), Atlanta, GA
Riscorp (11th floor lobby), Sarasota, FL
Standard Country Club (lobby), Louisville, KY
Grand Central Office Building, 1000 St. Louis Union Station, St. Louis, MO, Mackey/Mitchell Architects
University Hospital (lobby triptych), Cincinnati, OH
St. Luke’s Hospital (lobby), Newport, KY
Association of Metropolitan Sewage Agencies, Washington, DC
C.P.I. Corporation, St. Louis, MO
Kaiser Permanente, Atlanta, GA
Central Bank, Lexington, KY
Balke Properties, St. Louis, MO
Brown & Williamson, Louisville, KY
First Unitarian Church, Louisville, KY
Southern Progress Collection, Birmingham, AL
Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, KY

GRANTS , AWARDS, AND PUBLICATIONS
“Kentucky Women Artists 1850 To 2000”, Catalogue #30 Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY, 2001
Kentucky Foundation for Women  Visual Arts Grant 2000
Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Assistance Award 2000
“The Best of Oil Painting”, Rockport Publishers, 1996 (reproduction)
“Landscape Inspirations”, Rockport Publishers, 1997 (reproduction)
“The Language of Literature”,(Grade 8 textbook),McDougal Littell Publishers,2001(reproduction)
Who’s Who in American Art
Who’s Who in American Women
Alternate Visions, Atlanta, GA; Indiana Arts Commission; Kentucky Humanities Council (Support for the Marriage Project) 1993-4
Hambidge Center Resident Fellow, 1994
Juror’s Panel Alternate Visions, Southeastern US, 1995

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Diane Heilenman, Shows depict women’s prominent place in Kentucky art, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, 11/11/01(R)
Benita Heath, Visual metaphors play in Joyce Garner’s work, Lexington Herald-Leader, September 13,1998 (R)
Julie Pratt McQuiston,  Come buy, Come buy,Nuvo, Indianapolis, March  26-April 2, 1998 (R)
Owen Findsen, Artists take low-tech road, The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 13, 1997
Skip Berry, Art of the City, The Indianapolis Star, April 28, 1996 (R)
Barney Quick, The big and little enchantments of Joyce Garner, Nuvo, Indianapolis, June 27, 1996 (R)
Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies poster (R)Rain or Shine, 1995
The Marriage Project: A Midlife Perspective (exhibition catalog), Christine Havice Introduction, 1995 (R)
Jackie Demaline, The Arts: ‘The Marriage Project’, The Cincinnati Enquirer, September 8, 1995
Judy Look, Visual Arts: “That’s Where You’ll Find Me”, Louisville Eccentric Observer, October 23, 1994 (R)
Diane Heilenman, Yvonne Rapp Gallery (review), Louisville Courier-Journal, October 23, 1994 (R)
“The Fine Art Index” 1993 North American Edition, International Art Reference, Inc. publisher (R)
Miriam Schapiro, Breaking Bread: Etching the Plate , catalog essay for Ladies Lunch: Exploring the Tradition, 11/4/92
 New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, January 8-February 7, 1993, Louisville Visual Art Association (R)
David Minton, Lexington scenes are winners (review), Lexington Herald-Leader July 14, 1991
Susan Thompson, Lisa Blackadar (catalog), A Private Realm, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY, 2/23/92 (R)
Diana Heyne, Artists’ look at relationships seems firmly rooted in nature (review), Lexington Herald-Leader, 3/8/92  (R)
Anne Shleper, Women Together: Lunchtime Art Gatherings Create Taste for Expression (feature article), The Evansville Courier, IN, 10/2/92 (R)
Linda Stahl, The Ladies Who Lunch (feature article) Louisville Courier-Journal, March 10, 1992 (R)
Lori Gray, Visual Arts (review), Louisville Eccentric Observer, June 5, 1991
Christine Havice, Lisa Blackadar, Transformations: Feminist Art by Louisville Artists (catalog), LVAA  February 2-March 9, 1990 (R)