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
Group Exhibition in Lower East Side
I am participating in an interesting group exhibition in Lower East Side of New York City this summer. Please come by when you are in the area. For Which It Stands Opening Reception: Friday, June 28, 6-9pm Open from June … Continue reading
May 2013 Gallery Roundup in Chelsea
Last Thursday, I took the advantage of the brilliant sunshine to walk around Chelsea galleries to see some shows. Unfortunately many galleries were closed for installation in preparation for their big shows for the upcoming Frieze week, and I will … Continue reading
Blue Plate Special Installation Photos
Kira Nam Greene: Blue Plate Special Accola Griefen Gallery April 11 – May 18, 2013 547 W. 27th Street, #634 | Open Tues – Sat 11am – 6pm | 646 532 3488 I have some installation photos from my solo … Continue reading
Flourless Almond Cake
Recently I became gluten sensitive and decided to refrain from any food containing substantial amount of flour, which eliminated a lot of my favorite things to eat: ramen, dumplings, crusty country breads, croissants, fruit tarts, chocolate cakes or pretty much … Continue reading
Many Oddities at Culinary Arts Museum in Providence, RI
I took a little R&R after the installation and the opening of my show at Accola Griefen Gallery to parts of New England that I have never been to. I visited Gilded Age mansions in Newport imagining Edith Wharton‘s … Continue reading
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt at MoMA PS1
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Tender Love Among the Junk One of my old professors from SVA, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt had a retrospective at MoMA PS1. Tommy, as everyone from school always calls him, makes luminous, devotional art out of trash: cling wraps, foil, … Continue reading
April Gallery Roundup in Lower East Side
There were some interesting shows in Lower East Side galleries this months, and as usual the work somehow seems to relate to one another in the art world’s continuing obsession with minimalism. Here are some of the noteworthy exhibitions that … Continue reading
Solo Exhibition in New York at Accola Griefen Gallery
Kira Nam Greene: Blue Plate Special Reception: Thurs. April 11, 6-8pm April 11 – May 18, 2013 I am very excited to have my first solo exhibition at Accola Griefen Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. I have been working very hard … Continue reading
Participating in A.I.R. Gallery 40th Anniversary Show
40/40: A Double Vision Curated by Lily Wei March 7 – March 30, 2013 OPENING: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 6-9pm A.I.R. Gallery, the first artists-run gallery for women artists in the United States is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with an exhibition … Continue reading
Participating in 2013 Wheaton Biennial in Norton, MA
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 … Continue reading