I am participating in a fun group exhibition in San Francisco featuring 10 Asian American artists whose work encourages and entices viewers to use all five senses to interact with their artworks, organized by Kearny Street Workshop at the SOMArts Cultural Center.
The exhibit, A Sensory Feast is inspired by Asian culinary traditions, had a very entertaining opening reception featuring the gourmet food trucks of San Francisco on Feb. 4th, from 6-9PM.
The participating artists are Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Brandon Bigelow, Jean Chen, Kira Greene, Yosh Han, Amy M.Ho, Arthur Huang, Annie S. Koh and the National Bitter Melon Council (Jeremy Liu and Hiroko Kikuchi).
Gallery Opening: Friday, February 4, 2011 from 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon-7 p.m.; Saturday noon–5 p.m.
Bitter is Better? A Presentation of the National Bitter Melon Council: Wednesday, February 16, 7-9 p.m.
Artist Talk & Closing Reception: Thursday, February 24, 7-9 p.m.
WHERE: SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan, San Francisco, CA 94103
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.