About
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.
Author Archives: kira.nam.greene
Pasta Peperonata
I have been very busy, and cooking has become a luxury recently, but I can still whip up something healthy that does not take a great deal of time or effort. Here is a great vegetarian lunch dish with yummy … Continue reading
Chelsea Gallery Crawl
I visited some of the Chelsea galleries last weekend of April with my friend Brett, who was visiting from San Francisco. As usual there were mostly disappointments, but also a few interesting exhibitions. I thought Kenneth Noland‘s show at Mitchell-Innes … Continue reading
Visit to Sheldon Museum
I went to the heartland of America, aka Lincoln, NE to see the exhibition, Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still-Lifes, and give a lecture at the Sheldon Museum of Art. The exhibition was exquisitely curated by Brandon K. Ruud, Sheldon’s … Continue reading
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a key to the Scriptures
Yes, that is the title of the latest Tony Kushner play that I saw last Friday at the Public Theater (in co-production with Signature Theater Company, in part of their season long Kushner retrospective / celebration). The play, which explores … Continue reading
Surveying the Immigrant Experience: Art Exhibition
EVENT DATE: Wednesday, April 27 2011 : 6:00pm – 7:30pm LOCATION: The LGBT Community Center, 208 W 13th St, Manhattan Wednesday, April 27, 2011 through Thursday, September 1, 2011 Opening Reception, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 6PM – 7:30PM I am included in a … Continue reading
Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera
I have been enjoying going to the Metropolitan Opera all season long this year. Last year I decided that I wanted to see more operas and especially the repertory beyond Puccini, Verdi and Mozart. I subscribed a Monday subscription series … Continue reading
Campbell Soady Gallery presents Intersecting Identities Show
I am going to be showing a couple of figure drawings at LGBT Center in the West Village. Here is the press release from the Center Campbell Soady Gallery presents Intersecting Identities Show Opening Reception: Saturday, March 19 2011 : … Continue reading
Psari Plaki
Baked fish with tomatoes and onions I had a few friends over for a pot luck dinner last week, and I wanted to make something simple and non-meat dish, and I made this Greek baked fish dish adapted from great … Continue reading
The catalog for Sheldon Exhibition
The catalog for Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes is for sale now at the Sheldon Museum bookstore. Sheldon Museum’s director Jorge Daniel Veneciano discusses my work, Archway to Happiness in the introductory essay, “Foreword: The Fruits of Reading … Continue reading
A fun exhibition in San Francisco touches all senses
I am participating in a fun group exhibition in San Francisco featuring 10 Asian American artists whose work encourages and entices viewers to use all five senses to interact with their artworks, organized by Kearny Street Workshop at the SOMArts … Continue reading