ARTIST STATEMENT
Through drawing and painting outdoors and in the studio, I make experiential records of place.
I live in Los Angeles, a layered metropolis that has not yet overwritten the land it stands on.
My work falls into two categories: loosely observational studio paintings that juxtapose interior still life with urban window views, and plein air (on-site) works made in city parks and nature reserves. Through these varied footings, I am concerned with wilderness, inside and outside, urbanism, landscape and living things.
In sum, my work offers the painting as a speculative response to the experience of one’s own presence, a hybridized naturalism of sensorial experience: being in place and looking outward. Due to the ineffable qualities of this subject/situation, the project of a representation is full of questions and yields a provisionary image. This time it seems this way, next time something different.
For me, painting is about the pleasures and curiosities of thinking with and through materials, exploring ways of looking, and following pathways of the hand.
Photo by Aidan Butler
BIO
MFA from Mason Gross, Rutgers. Also studied at California State University of Sacramento, New York Studio School, and Bard College.
From 2007 through 2011 Granett participated in artist-run exhibition initiatives, exhibiting her work in Newark and Brookyn. She attended Red Gate Residency in Beijing (2010), participated in the Bronx AIM program (2011), and received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2011). From 2011 to 2014 she lived and worked in Istanbul, co-producing the artist-run project space NIMBY Lifestyles with artists Jasmine Justice and Jesse Farber. Returning to the US in 2014 she co-founded the online arts magazine Dime and Honey (2014-2017) with artist Carin Rodenborn-Wohadlo. She has worked collaboratively with musician-composer Roozbeh Nafisi (Festival of New American Music, 2017), and Steven Dressler (video animation shorts, TSTS). Granett was a resident at Vermont Studio Center in 2017. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting. From 2022 to 2024 she was a member of the artists’ curatorial collective Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles.