Angie Reed Garner (1969, Lexington KY) is a second-generation narrative
figurative painter, with a BA from Reed College in '89 (Classics). Garner has
been exhibiting actively since 1996 with nine solo shows in the US, Europe,
and the Middle East.

venus transit
64 x 40"
oil on canvas
2006

Garner's favored theme is the fragility of identity and belonging--
that which makes social life possible. Her work explores gender,
place, continuity and discontinuity of self, marginality, public/private--
the refusal of (self) alienation. Garner paints saturated, symbolic canvases.

From an intellectual and activist concern for social justice,
Garner also creates installations using resonant materials such
as currency, vintage Americana, and toys.

Garner currently resides in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Please see works done in/about Lahore, Pakistan here.

For a longer if somewhat dated interview by Amie Gillingham about past process
and influences, go here.

Garner's mother, Joyce Garner, is an enormous influence and inspiration.
Please see Joyce Garner's work here.

Artist in Residence, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi UAE (2009)

Curator, "the speed of slow: backroads America, blogged from a scooter," Garner-Furnish Studio, Louisville Kentucky USA (2007)

Guest lecture, "sources of narrative art," Monmouth College, Monmouth Illinois USA (2007)

PYRO Gallery Co-director, Louisville, Kentucky USA (2006)

Public lecture, "in situ/in transit," PYRO Gallery, Louisville Kentucky USA (2006)

Public lecture, "the last Amazon, " Beloit Fine Arts Incubator, Beloit Wisconsin USA (2005)

Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Support Grant (2000)
“yes we both paint” collaborative project

ART PUBLICATIONS

2003. All The Days After: Critical Voices in Poetry and Artwork (Contributor). Upside Down Culture Collective.

PUBLICATIONS

Single Author

2007. Women Who Immigrate: Production vs. Reproduction. Building Democracy Magazine (March).

Co-Author

Forthcoming. Relations of War: Mothers, Soldiers, Knowledge (with S. Gardiner). In Women,
War, and Violence Personal Perspectives and Global Activism, Eds. R. Chandler, L. Wang
and L. Fuller. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.

2005. Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC): Xenophobia, Nativism and Anti Immigrant
Hysteria (with D. Burghart and S. Gardiner). Chicago: Center for New Community.

2005. Shell Games: The “Minutemen” and Vigilante Anti-Immigrant Politics (with D. Burghart
and S. Gardiner). Chicago: Center for New Community.

2004. Hostile Takeover: Race, Immigration and the Sierra Club (with D. Burghart and S.
Gardiner). Chicago: Center for New Community.

Editor

Burghart, D. 2001. Turn it Down Resource Kit, ed. Angie Reed Garner. Chicago: Center for New Community.