I have been working on a new oil painting, featuring dragon fruits for a few months now (and still a long way to finish). This is a first oil painting that I have done in over 10 years, and I have been learning and re-learning many technics, which has been both challenging and exciting at the same time. Here are some of the photos documenting the progress of the painting. I thought that it might be fun to see how the painting was made.
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.