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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.Instagram Feed
Category Archives: French
Matisse : À la recherche de la vraie peinture
As I occasionally do, I have translated yesterday’s blog post on Matisse exhibition in French for my ongoing study of the language. I want to thank Thomas for looking over grammatical mistakes. Pour les nombreux amateurs d’art, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) … Continue reading
Richard III: Un autre candidat Républicain à la présidentielle?
Richard III (dirigé par Sam Mendes), une des premières pièces politiques de Shakespeare, monté à BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), est un choix parfait en cette saison de politique présidentielle. Cette représentation, avec Kevin Spacey en vedette dans le rôle … Continue reading
Le mythe de la société sans classe (The myth of classless society)
Les Etats-Unis n’ont pas un système de classe. C’est une chose européenne, non? Mon dernier voyage à Los Angeles m’a fait penser à l’idée (en vogue récemment au sein de la droite et de la gauche) de la guerre des … Continue reading
Paris Gallery Crawl-III
This is going to be my last post about the gallery exhibitions in Paris in September, 2011. The most exciting show for me was Jim Shaw‘s installation and drawing show at Praz-Delavallade. The exhibition, titled THRILLING STORIES FROM THE BOOK … Continue reading
Paris Gallery Crawl-II
Here is the second part of my Paris gallery round-up for September, 2011. In this entry, I am listing some of the more interesting shows that I have seen in smaller galleries around Marais district in Paris. Most Paris galleries … Continue reading
Paris Gallery Crawl I
I have been neglecting my blog for a while, and there is a good reason for it. I went to France for 3 weeks for a long anticipated vacation. 🙂 I have eaten some amazing food and seen some interesting … Continue reading
Art populism, dirty words?
Recently watching the idiotic debt ceiling debates and the appalling spectacle of the politicians talking over each other, I kept thinking about the culture of language and the idea of populism. How did the idea of Populism, the idea that … Continue reading
Regardant le Tour de France
Chaque Juillet, j’attends avec une grande impatience l’arrivée du Tour de France, la plus grande et la plus célèbre (aussi la plus difficile) course cycliste du monde. Normalement je ne suis pas une grande fan de sport (bien que je … Continue reading
Savage Beauty of Alexander McQueen (La beauté sauvage d’Alexander McQueen)
I went to see Alexander McQueen’s very popular posthumous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called Savage Beauty. The wait to get in the exhibition is always at least 30 minutes, and once you are in the exhibition hall … Continue reading
Un voyage intellectual dans le temps de Tom Stoppard
This spring theater season, I did not have too much time to devote to sample a lot of shows, but I did have a chance to see the revival of Tom Stoppard‘s 1993 masterpiece Arcadia starring Billy Crudup, Margaret Colin, … Continue reading
