Photography, sculpture, and hypotheticals

Second Sight Award talk with Anna Berenice Garner, 11:30am at Bread & Salt

Saturday, March 22 at 11:30am, Solo exhibition at Best Practice

Anna Berenice Garner approaches the photographic image as a means of both collecting and constructing fictions, combining sculpture into photography and photography into sculpture to build hypothetical and potential worlds. In the artist’s work she physically constructs spaces for the camera, utilizing techniques of theatrical set design and in particular the arrangement and manipulation of flat forms to create artifice. Anna’s practice follows a queer tradition of metamorphic experimentation, reordering accepted corporal and spatial logics to construct new subjectivities in which precedents of truth/un-truth are uncertain.

During her talk Anna will speak about recent work that examines the genre of landscape as a means of manifesting and seeing reality, but that is not itself reality. Within this work Anna builds mountains, peaks, and horizon lines from wood, plaster, and paper, often utilizing her own subjective physicality and performing within the constructions.

Guests are invited to an exhibition reception with Anna Berenice Garner at Best Practice beginning at 4:00pm, located inside Bread & Salt.

About Anna Berenice Garner

Born in New York and raised in San Diego, Anna currently lives in México City. One person exhibitions of her work have been presented at Lateral, México City, México, Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY (2022); ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA (2019); and Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ (2015). Anna’s work has been included in thematic exhibitions at Guadalajara90210, Mexico City, MX (2022), Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium (2019); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2019); and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2016). In 2015 she was a recipient of the Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Forum Artist Grant and has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2016), and Art OMI (2019). Her work is held in the collections of The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA), The Federal Reserve Board (Washington DC), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX) and The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC).

Discover her work on Instagram @anna.b.garner