Art Basel
OVR:2020

Doreen Lynette Garner, Borna Sammak
September 25 - 26, 2020
This sculpture is a wooden shelf mounted to wall. The shelf is stained a very dark brown, and is covered in apothecary jars, pearls, surgical equipment, and silicon modeled to look like human flesh. The apothecary jars are filled with whiskey and contain silicon objects that resemble human flesh or body parts.
Doreen Garner
“Please God, I hope when I die, it’ll be in the summertime”, 2020
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
This sculpture is a wooden shelf mounted to wall. The shelf is stained a very dark brown, and is covered in apothecary jars, pearls, surgical equipment, and silicon modeled to look like human flesh. The apothecary jars are filled with whiskey and contain silicon objects that resemble human flesh or body parts.
Doreen Garner
“Please God, I hope when I die, it’ll be in the summertime”, 2020
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
Detail image of the apothecary jars and surgical tools that make up the artwork.
Doreen Garner
“Please God, I hope when I die, it’ll be in the summertime”, 2020 (detail)
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
This sculpture is a wooden shelf mounted to wall. The shelf is stained a very dark brown, and is covered in a number of objects, including a human skull, several surgical scissors, medical gauze, branches of cotton, wheat, human teeth and hair, and a pitcher filled with silicon resembling flesh.
Doreen Garner
“As the gauze in my mouth filled with blood and my limp body hit the concrete, I remembered Joice Heth”, 2020
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
This sculpture is a wooden shelf mounted to wall. The shelf is stained a very dark brown, and is covered in a number of objects, including a human skull, several surgical scissors, medical gauze, branches of cotton, wheat, human teeth and hair, and a pitcher filled with silicon resembling flesh.
Doreen Garner
“As the gauze in my mouth filled with blood and my limp body hit the concrete, I remembered Joice Heth”, 2020
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
Detail of the skull, teeth, and cotton on the shelf of the artwork.
Doreen Garner
“As the gauze in my mouth filled with blood and my limp body hit the concrete, I remembered Joice Heth”, 2020 (detail)
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
This sculpture is a wooden shelf mounted to wall. The shelf is stained a very dark brown, and is covered in a number of objects, including a severed hand, flesh draped to the side, grapes, branches of cotton, scissors, an antique silver knife, and a pearl necklace.
Doreen Garner
“One could say that few living things have experienced vivisection the way black subjects have without also being cooked and eaten” scribed a Sultan, 2020
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
This sculpture is a wooden shelf mounted to wall. The shelf is stained a very dark brown, and is covered in a number of objects, including a severed hand, flesh draped to the side, grapes, branches of cotton, scissors, an antique silver knife, and a pearl necklace.
Doreen Garner
“One could say that few living things have experienced vivisection the way black subjects have without also being cooked and eaten” scribed a Sultan, 2020
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
Detail of the sever hand, skull, and grapes on the shelf of the artwork.
Doreen Garner
“One could say that few living things have experienced vivisection the way black subjects have without also being cooked and eaten” scribed a Sultan, 2020 (detail)
mixed media
30 x 40 x 18 in
76 x 101.5 x 45.5 cm
An array of neon and bright colored t-shirt graphics collaged on a canvas.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020
heat applied t-shirt graphics on canvas
60 x 48 in
152.5 x 122 cm
Detail image of the t-shirt graphics with various words printed on one another, I'M BAAAD and STAY DRY FOR AMERICA and NEED A COFFIN.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020 (detail)
heat applied t-shirt graphics on canvas
60 x 48 in
152.5 x 122 cm
Detail image of various t-shirt graphics.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020 (detail)
heat applied t-shirt graphics on canvas
60 x 48 in
152.5 x 122 cm
A black beach towel stretched on a canvas embroidered with squiggled designs in various colors and patterns.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020
beach towel and embroidery on canvas
62 x 53 in
157.5 x 134.5 cm
Detail image of the embroidered beach towel.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020 (detail)
beach towel and embroidery on canvas
62 x 53 in
157.5 x 134.5 cm
Detail image of the embroidered beach towel.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020 (detail)
beach towel and embroidery on canvas
62 x 53 in
157.5 x 134.5 cm
An array of t-shirt graphics collaged on a canvas.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020
heat applied t-shirt graphics on canvas
70 x 60 in
178 x 152.5 cm
Detail image of the t-shirt graphics with various words printed on one another, IF IT HAS TITS OR TIRES, and a woman in a bikini posing.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020 (detail)
heat applied t-shirt graphics on canvas
70 x 60 in
178 x 152.5 cm
Detail image of various t-shirt graphics.
Borna Sammak
Not Yet Titled, 2020 (detail)
heat applied t-shirt graphics on canvas
70 x 60 in
178 x 152.5 cm
This archive showcases a curated selection of artworks and JTT exhibitions