Doreen Garner: Full Body is an exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist’s seductively-crafted and provocatively grotesque sculptural objects. Made from a diverse array of materials including hand-blown glass, silicone, swarovski crystal, hair, and anatomy books, Garner’s work is materially and visually arresting, while purposefully confronting the dark spectres of atrocity associated with the objectification and dissection of the black female body in the history of medical experimentation.

“I identify, extract, and exploit the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque, specifically regarding the black female body. Treated as spectacle and disposable specimen, these women and their stories—Henrietta Lacks, Saartjie Baartman, the victims of Dr. J. Marion Sims—are a driving force. Identifying the voyeur as the subject, an oppositional gaze is directed towards fetish, objectification, and racism.”