garner narrative celebrates art with generative messiness and personal-political content. These are some hallmarks of a committed studio practice, in which fluid personal truth is defined through artmaking.
In a contemporary narrative artwork, the plot is rarely fixed or linear. The meaning of a story emerges only in conversation with what a person brings to it. This is a source of tremendous energy and creative possibility.
See also our other art space: Garner LARGE
In a contemporary narrative artwork, the plot is rarely fixed or linear. The meaning of a story emerges only in conversation with what a person brings to it. This is a source of tremendous energy and creative possibility.
See also our other art space: Garner LARGE
Gallery director Angie Reed Garner is a second generation self-taught painter. She cofounded garner narrative with her mother Joyce Garner (see below) in 2011. Angie Reed is an activist and founding member of the Buddhist Justice Collective. Angie Reed has lived on four continents, collaborated on anthropological research into veteran-civilian relations, taught drawing to sheikhas in the United Arab Emirates, and now teaches Zen in the Open Mind Zen/White Plum Asangha lineage. Through it all she sustained a personal art practice which eventually expanded into two art spaces, garner narrative and garner LARGE, located in Louisville, Kentucky.
"They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have a lot to say so painting is efficient."
For more about Angie Reed, visit her website.
Contact Angie Reed at garnernarrative@gmail.com
"They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have a lot to say so painting is efficient."
For more about Angie Reed, visit her website.
Contact Angie Reed at garnernarrative@gmail.com
Will Garner is also a second generation artist, son of Joyce Garner. He studied sculpture at Brandeis University with Tom Bills, and painting with Debra Clem at Indiana University Southeast.
"A wall full of my drawings can function almost like a tarot deck that people can't help but find soaked with their own past, present, and future. That's the artist statement truth. The other truth is that I like animals, and they're fun for me to draw."
Will has worked as a fencing coach, a sprite designer, and a sculpture studio assistant. He now serves as assistant gallery director.
For more about Will, visit his Instagram. Contact Will at wmgarner@gmail.com
"A wall full of my drawings can function almost like a tarot deck that people can't help but find soaked with their own past, present, and future. That's the artist statement truth. The other truth is that I like animals, and they're fun for me to draw."
Will has worked as a fencing coach, a sprite designer, and a sculpture studio assistant. He now serves as assistant gallery director.
For more about Will, visit his Instagram. Contact Will at wmgarner@gmail.com
Joyce Garner is a narrative, large-format oil painter with a studio in Louisville. She is the Kentucky South Arts 2021 State Fellow, with solo shows at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center (IN); the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art (KY); the Carnegie (KY); Indiana University Southeast; the University of Evansville Melvin Peterson Gallery; the Archabbey Library Gallery at St. Meinrad; Germantown Performing Arts Centre (TN); Krempp Gallery of Jasper Arts Center (IN); the Gateway Regional Art Center (KY); Oakland City University (IN); the Headley-Whitney Museum (KY); and various galleries in Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. She earned a B.S. from the University of Kentucky.
Joyce co-founded garner narrative in 2011 with daughter Angie Reed; she is now retired from the gallery and entirely focused on her own painting practice.
"I love to sit in front of a piece in the mornings with a cup of hot tea in my hands, and let my mind go. I want art that gives me a place to go."
For more about Joyce and to see available paintings and murals, visit her website: table paintings.
Joyce co-founded garner narrative in 2011 with daughter Angie Reed; she is now retired from the gallery and entirely focused on her own painting practice.
"I love to sit in front of a piece in the mornings with a cup of hot tea in my hands, and let my mind go. I want art that gives me a place to go."
For more about Joyce and to see available paintings and murals, visit her website: table paintings.