Solo and two person exhibitions

Louisville, KY

Germantown Performing Arts Centre, Germantown TN 2012

Krempp Gallery, Jasper Arts Center, Jasper IN 2012

garner narrative contemporary fine art, Louisville KY 2012

Gallery 56, Memphis TN 2012

Gateway Regional Art Center, Mt. Sterling KY 2011

Oakland City University, Oakland City IN 2010

Fein Art Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 2009

Malton Gallery, Cincinnati OH 2008, 2003, 1999, 1994

Marin-Price Galleries, Chevy Chase MD 2008, 1998

Hot House Gallery, Indianapolis IN 2001, 1998, 1996

Indiana University Southeast, New Albany IN 2000

Corporate Art Source, Montgomery AL 1998

Montgomery County Council for the Arts, Mt. Sterling KY 1998

Carnegie Arts Center, Covington KY 1997

Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart IN 1997

Jewish Community Center, Louisville KY 1995

Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville KY 1994, 1993, 1991, 1989

Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington KY 1992

Bluegrass Airport Gallery, Lexington KY 1991

Central Bank Gallery, Lexington KY 1991, 1988

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Holidaze” Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro KY 2010

Art in Embassies Program, Riga Latvia 2004-2008

“Encompass” Ardgillan Castle, Co. Dublin Ireland 2004

“Kentucky Women” The Carnegie, Covington KY 2004

“Romancing Kentucky” Behringer-Crawford Museum, Covington KY 2004

“Here and There” Brunz Rosowsky Gallery, Las Vegas NV 2003

“Appalachia: A Contemporary Cultural Perspective” Kennedy Museum, Ohio University 2003

“Life-Collaborating” Sutherland Gallery, “Home and Hearth” Nazareth Arts, Bardstown KY 2002

“Star Spangled Colour” Trace Contemporary Art, Belfast Northern Ireland 2002

“Links That Connect Us” Waterfront Hall, Belfast Northern Ireland 2002

“Kentucky Women Artists: 1970-2000”,Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro KY 2001

"By Invitation", University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute, Louisville KY 2000

“Still Life With Four Artists”, Louisville Visual Art Association,

Louisville KY 1997

Art in Embassies Program, US Mission to European Communities, Brussels Belgium1992-1996

Kirschner Haack Fine Art Gallery, Miami Beach FL 1996

“The Marriage Project: a mid-life perspective” (co-initiator/catalog) traveling exhibition, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart IN; Carnegie Art Center, Covington KY; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis IN; Indiana

University, Indiana PA; Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY; Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute IN 1995, 1996

Three Rivers Arts Festival, Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, Pittsburgh PA 1995

“Ladies Lunch: Exploring the Tradition” (catalog) traveling exhibition: New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony IN, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville KY, Ashland Area Art Gallery, Ashland KY 1993, 1992

Transformations: Feminist Art by Louisville Artists (catalog), Louisville Visual Art Association 1990, Indianapolis Art League 1992

All Kentucky Juried Women’s Art Exhibition, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington KY, 1991

Artforms ‘90, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette IN 1990

Design Center(catalog), Washington DC 1990

“A Kentucky Show”, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit ME 1989

Water Tower Annual, Louisville KY 1989

Gallery Invitational, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington KY 1988

Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY 1986, 1996

“Two Figurative Artists”, Artsplace, Lexington KY 1985

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Owensboro Regional Hospital, Owensboro, KY

Givaudan Roure, Cincinnati, OH

Peach Tree Center, International Tower (lobby), Atlanta, GA

Riscorp (11th floor lobby), Sarasota FL

Horseshoe Casino, Cincinnati OH

Standard Country Club (lobby), Louisville KY

Grand Central Office Building, 1000 St. Louis Union Station, St. Louis, MO, Mackey/Mitchell Architects

University Hospital (lobby triptych), Cincinnati OH

St. Luke’s Hospital (lobby), Newport KY

Association of Metropolitan Sewage Agencies, Washington DC

C.P.I. Corporation, St. Louis MO

Kaiser Permanente, Atlanta GA

Central Bank, Lexington KY

Balke Properties, St. Louis MO

Brown & Williamson, Louisville KY

First Unitarian Church, Louisville KY

Southern Progress Collection, Birmingham AL

Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville KY

“Kentucky Women Artists 1850 To 2000”, Catalogue #30 Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro KY, 2001 (reproduction)

“The Language of Literature”(Grade 8 textbook), McDougal Littell Publishers, 2001 (reproduction)

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Visual Arts Grant, 2000

Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Assistance Award 2000

“Landscape Inspirations”, Rockport Publishers, 1997 (reproduction)

“The Best of Oil Painting”, Rockport Publishers, 1996 (reproduction)

Juror’s Panel Alternate Visions, Southeastern US, 1995

Hambidge Center Resident Fellow, 1994

Alternate Visions, Atlanta, GA; Indiana Arts Commission; Kentucky Humanities Council (Support for the Marriage Project) 1993-4

Who’s Who in American Art

Who’s Who in American Women

Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh debut, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 11, 2009 (reproduction)

David Minton, Collaborators paired in life, teamed as artists, Lexington Herald-Leader, December 8, 2002 (reproduction)

Diane Heilenman, Shows depict women’s prominent place in Kentucky art, The Courier-Journal,

Louisville, November 11, 2001 (reproduction)

Benita Heath, Visual metaphors play in Joyce Garner’s work, Lexington

Herald-Leader, September 13,1998 (reproduction)

Julie Pratt McQuiston, Come buy, Come buy, Nuvo, Indianapolis, March 26 - April 2, 1998 (reproduction)

Owen Findsen, Artists take low-tech road, The Cincinnati Enquirer,

April 13, 1997

Skip Berry, Art of the City, The Indianapolis Star, April 28, 1996 (reproduction)

Barney Quick, The big and little enchantments of Joyce Garner, Nuvo, Indianapolis, June 27, 1996 (reproduction)

National Association of Clean Water Agencies poster, Rain or Shine, 1995

The Marriage Project: A Midlife Perspective (exhibition catalog), Christine Havice Introduction, 1995 (reproduction)

Jackie Demaline, The Arts: ‘The Marriage Project’, The Cincinnati Enquirer, September 8, 1995

Judy Look, Visual Arts: “That’s Where You’ll Find Me”, Louisville Eccentric Observer, October 23, 1994 (reproduction)

Diane Heilenman, Yvonne Rapp Gallery (review), Louisville Courier-Journal, October 23, 1994 (reproduction)

“The Fine Art Index” 1993 North American Edition, International Art Reference, Inc. publisher (reproduction)

Miriam Schapiro, Breaking Bread: Etching the Plate, catalog essay for Ladies Lunch: Exploring the Tradition, October 4-November 18, 1992 New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, January 8-February 7, 1993, Louisville Visual Art Association (reproduction)

Susan Thompson, Lisa Blackadar (exhibition catalog), A Private Realm, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY, February 23-April 5, 1992, (reproductions)

Diana Heyne, Artists’ look at relationships seems firmly rooted in nature (review), Lexington Herald-Leader, March 8, 1992 (reproduction)

Anne Shleper, Women Together: Lunchtime Art Gatherings Create Taste for Expression (feature article), The Evansville Courier, IN, October 2, 1992 (reproduction)

Linda Stahl, The Ladies Who Lunch (feature article) Louisville Courier-Journal, March 10, 1992 (reproduction)

David Minton, Lexington scenes are winners (review), Lexington Herald-Leader July 14, 1991

Lori Gray, Visual Arts (review), Louisville Eccentric Observer, June 5, 1991

Christine Havice, Lisa Blackadar, Transformations: Feminist Art by Louisville Artists (exhibition catalog), Louisville Visual Art Association, February 2-March 9, 1990 (reproduction)

garner narrative contemporary fine art, Louisville KY

Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA