Accola Griefen Gallery took some of my paintings and drawings to Miami this year to participate in SCOPE Miami 2012. This year’s Miami edition of the fair, December 4 – December 9, 2012, presented 80 international galleries in addition to solo and thematic group shows and special events. The show took place in an 80,000 square foot pavilion across the street from Art Miami, in the Wynwood Arts District. Running concurrently with Art Basel Miami, SCOPE’s Midtown Miami home was just steps from The Rubell family collection, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse and Goldman Collection.
I was very happy to share the booth with Judy Pfaff, Keun Young Park & Mitch Miller.
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.