COMU members and friends are invited for an artist talk featuring New York-based contemporary artist Kira Name Greene in conversation with Jonathan F. Walz, Ph. D., curator of American art. Greene’s work draws from the feminist traditions of the Pattern and Decoration Movement. Through a blend of realism and abstraction, the artist utilizes various media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil to create her distinctive portraitures. Greene’s paintings have been exhibited internationally, and in 2022, she was a finalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Award.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:00 to 8:00 pm
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906
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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.