I participated in an outdoor art festival hosted by artists Thordis Adalsteinsdottir and David Herbert on their farm near Sharon Springs, NY over the last weekend. We left the city on Friday afternoon and the evening started with some music and performances at a very nice restaurant called 204 Main Street Bistro, in Sharon Springs. On Saturday, all the participating artists installed and made art at the farm, helping each other and talking about art. I installed one of my vinyl wallpaper to the side of the farm house, which looked great against the yellow wall and the trees. There were children, dogs and barbecue, and luckily the sun shined all day to everyone’s delight. Here are some photos of the festivities, and many thanks to the hosts!
For more photos of the work, please visit Pleasant View Art Fest web page here.
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.