2013 Wheaton Biennial: Drawing Out of Bounds
Curated by Judith Tannenbaum
February 27 – April 13, 2013
OPENING: February 27, 2013, 5-8pm
Wheaton’s inaugural Biennial will showcase the work of 54 artists from 19 states and one foreign country whose work explores the boundaries of drawing and pushes it into new territories. The work–including sculpture, video, printmaking, fiber arts, photography, installation, and traditional drawing using nontraditional materials–was selected by juror Judith Tannenbaum, curator of contemporary art at the RISD Museum of Art. The Wheaton Biennial is an example of Wheaton’s open spirit of inquiry and a curriculum that emphasizes connections across disciplinary boundaries. I am particularly excited to show my work with my good friend, Dane Patterson. For more information, go to the exhibition web site here.
Wheaton College
26 East Main Street, Norton, MA
Hours: Monday – Saturday, 12:30 – 4:30pm
Kira Nam Greene’s work explores female sexuality, desire and control through figure and food still-life paintings, surrounded by complex patterns. Imbuing the feminist legacies of Pattern and Decoration Movement with transnational, multicultural motifs, Greene creates colorful paintings that are unique combinations of realism and abstraction, employing diverse media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor and colored pencil. Combining Pop Art tropes and transnationalism, she also examines the politics of food through the depiction of brand name food products, or junk food. Recently, Greene started a figurative painting series spurred by the 2016 Presidential Election, Women’s March, #metoo movement and ensuing crisis of conscience, this new body of work aspires to present the power of collective action by women.