Doreen Garner

Doreen Garner is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Philadelphia, PA. Garner is co-host of #trashDAY, a Clocktower radio series that elevates the vernacular of urban fiction, reality television, gossip publications, social dance, and fashion, and uses it as a point of departure for satire and social commentary.

Select exhibitions include SHINY RED PUMPING, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2015), Abjection at the Rhode Island College Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI (2014), and Pussy Don't Fail Me Now, Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY (2015). Garner has completed residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2015) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). She holds a BFA in Glass from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and an MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design. Garner is a 2015-2016 Artist in Residence at Abrons Arts Center, NY.

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#trashDAY

#trashDAY hosts and visual artists Kenya (Robinson) and Doreen Garner elevate the vernacular of urban fiction, reality television, gossip publications, social dance, and fashion, and use it as a point of departure for satire and social commentary.