Production still from the Art21 New York Close Up film, “Doreen Garner on Her Own Terms.” © Art21, Inc., 2021. In an exclusive interview with Art21, Garner reflects on her choice, saying, “ I don’t want to put a bunch of bloody Black bodies just by themselves as entertainment.” Following the peak of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, the artist made a conscious decision to take a different tack with her work and attempt to create sculptures of white bodies-something she had never done before. Garner, who is also a tattoo artist, understands the way skin behaves more than most, using it as her canvas when creating body art, and creating the most lifelike version of it for her corporeal sculptures. Garner’s work often reflects on weighty issues of trauma afflicted on Black bodies, and the seemingly never-ending archive to mine. Marion Sims, who experimented on enslaved women without anesthesia.
In the quinquennial art exhibition “Greater New York,” on view now at MoMA PS1, sculptor Doreen Garner’s work Lucy’s Agony (2021) references the gut-churning experiments conducted on Black women by doctors like the so-called “father of modern gynecology” J.
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