Doreen Lynette Garner’s practice examines the histories and enduring effects of racial violence in the United States. She does this through the frameworks of medicine and pathology, by examining past and present examples of experimentation, malpractice, and exploitation enacted upon Black people. Harkening back to artists such as Lorraine O'Grady and Howardena Pindell, Doreen Lynette Garner’s work interrogates the abuse of power, the politics of redress and retribution, and ancestral revenge. Garner leverages her artistic practice as a vehicle to commemorate Black people who were enslaved, medically tortured, and racially oppressed.