Kira Nam Greene: Blue Plate Special
Accola Griefen Gallery
April 11 – May 18, 2013
547 W. 27th Street, #634 | Open Tues – Sat 11am – 6pm | 646 532 3488
I have some installation photos from my solo exhibition, Blue Plate Special at Accola Griefen Gallery, and wanted to share them. The response so far has been great, and I want to thank everyone who came to the opening and also came to the show.
I had a great class visit from Parsons, and I will be giving another artist talk this Thursday May 2 at 12:30 to some New York University graduate students, who are food historians, which will be very interesting for me.
The exhibition continues until May 18. Please visit the show when you are in Chelsea.
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.